Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Novel About a Jewish female doctor. In the Middle Ages.
Continuing the Story of Ivanhoe’s Rebecca
Tag: Family
A Mom, Not a Superhero: Debi Lewis On “Kitchen Medicine”
Mikhal Weiner
Parents break sometimes, and we put ourselves back together. But if we never see any stories of other people doing it, it makes us feel like monsters.
I Am Russian… In Name Only
Liba Vaynberg
I am not Russian, but I speak Russian. It’s a kind of nonconsensual tattoo Stalin left behind on my parents—better tattooed than dead.
These Jewish Sisters Ran a Safe Haven During the Nazi Occupation
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Q&A with Roxane Van Iperen, who realized her house in the woods was once a refuge for Jewish children.
Gut Morgen, Rifka Leibowitz
Sheila Solomon Shotwell
I never met my Great Aunt Rifka or even saw a photograph of her. Yet I’ve always had a clear picture of her in my mind, in a wheelchair, smiling. She has no legs and she’s wearing a fur stole with fox heads.
My Hair as a Metaphor
Meredith Gordon Resnick
My hair was a problem to be solved. From inside and outside the walls of my house, my hair was a symbol of something larger that had nothing and everything to do with me.
Why My Hair Falls the Way it Does
Makeda Zabot-Hall
Between the Jewish high holiday celebrations and family reunions in Brooklyn, New York, it was easier to say I was Jamaican and Jewish than it was for me to actually believe it.
Where Was the “Peace” 400 Years Ago?
Makeda Zabot-Hall
I thought my father hadn’t fought that day because he gave in. I thought he had let them win, when in reality, he had decided that his life, vows, and the promises that he had made to his wife and children trumped everything.
A Debut Novel About Family
Elizabeth Edelglass
What constitutes a good mother? A good father? A good daughter? A normal life? These are questions posed by R.L. Maizes in her compelling debut novel Other People’s Pets.
Dayenu: Dispatches From the Covid Sick Ward
Martha Anne Toll
We call our doctor, who says to isolate her immediately, “Lock her up, do the deepest clean possible and leave food outside her door as needed.”