Memoir

Remembering a year of hell and devastation—the year of the Spanish flu.

A lawyer reflects on his experience meeting with asylum seekers in a Texas detention center to prepare them for their credible fear interviews.

When Yiddish books are destroyed, who will miss them?

“A poor Jew trying to climb out of her class learns to associate her lower-classness with her Jewishness (also her femaleness).”

A socially distant taharah is an oxymoron that underscores the particular agony of this moment.

Finding strength in brokenness after a traumatic trip to Israel

Blocking the Damascus Gate on Jerusalem Day.

Performing womanhood onstage and off.

An overnight stay in the Vilna Ghetto’s newest attraction.

“Going to the mikveh meant giving my body, as it was, a place to be loved and called to holiness.”

“I don’t recall that those colorful brochures from Israel, sent to Russian Jews like my family, mentioned the Palestinians.”

Two grandchildren of Holocaust survivors exchange letters on making art and meaning from the Holocaust.