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Sunday, April 05, 2020
Around her the kids are screaming, but Dena can hear something else. The hiss of onions maybe, an angry hiss, like they’re charring
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In the Shadow of Corona
Wednesday, April 01, 2020
“The birth was smooth, the babies are healthy. My mother wasn’t here, but she got me a neis”
Windows
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
She holds the coat close. It smells of mothballs and blind faith
LifeTakes
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
I look at the pictures. At the widow’s smile. Did I smile like that today, yesterday?
Musings
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
"I’m a mom and a therapist because when this happens, you become a therapist”
LifeTakes
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
We rolled it off our tongues: “Twenty-twenty.” Distant and foreign sounding and a million miles away
Personal Accounts
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Fiction
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Six boys. Six yeshivos. Six chasunahs — well, seven, if you counted Yoni’s first marriage. Now they were starting to marry off the grandchildren
Musings
Thursday, October 10, 2019
“Look at him, at him, behind the stained shirt and missing teeth, and you can’t help loving him, he’s another Jew"
Calligraphy
Thursday, October 10, 2019
These women don’t even know her, but they want to know about her deepest struggles
Musings
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
I stand there with my years’ worth of baggage. Praying for another year
