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Malka Fleischmann

Oct 11, 2024, 7:34 AM

Where is teshuvah, when you can’t go home again?

A couple of weeks ago, I returned to my gap-year seminary, the Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women, more commonly called by the name of the kibbutz over which it casts its mighty shadow, Migdal Oz. Arriving there...

Jan 11, 2024, 5:32 AM

Israel: The Exilic Jew’s Phantom Limb

Since October 7th, I’ve worried that the cries of non-Israeli Jews seem performative. At a time when identity politics—though, arguably, having always been at play—reigns supreme, it would seem that worldwide Jewry is seizing upon an opportunity to be...

Sep 17, 2020, 1:49 PM

‘Perfecting’ with Patience (& Marshmallows)

In unsettling times and chapters of struggle, accepted wisdom reminds us to stoke our patience. That—as one of the 3 P’s of emotional resilience outlines—permanence is a myth, and we need only be faithful in time’s passing to witness...

Jul 26, 2020, 10:47 PM

Where twin hearts & differing hashkafot may gather

Recently, I met someone with an extraordinary pulse about him. Someone who bore a more dignified and radiant humanity than most I’ve previously encountered. Despite the busyness of his own brain, somehow and always, his mind trained with empathy...

May 19, 2020, 8:21 PM

The Distance Between Liberation and Redemption

Some years are challenging. This past one was my hardest yet. And so, it made sense that when, last month, my colleagues and I gathered for a Zoom-based Passover text study, I furiously blinked away tears, hoping no one...

About Me

Malka Fleischmann is a writer and educator living in Manhattan. She is passionate about Judaism, love, literature, education, and interfaith work. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Divinity School, Malka is also a Wexner Fellow-Davidson Scholar, M2 fellow, and UJA Shapiro Fellow, with roots firmly planted in Camp Stone. Malka's writing has been published in the New York Times, the Jewish Week, Tablet, and in Maggid Press' Gleanings: Reflections on Ruth and Esther in America.

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