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Jul 12, 2023, 7:00 PM

Leavin’ on a Jet Plane

For those of us nurtured on the 60’s, leavings may stir up this sweet Peter Paul and Mary song from our vintage memory banks. “My bags are packed, I’m ready to go. I’m standing here outside your door. I...

Jul 9, 2023, 11:01 AM

Healing amidst rumbles of war: A Tammuz Tale

I’m sitting on the mirpesset, the porch, in baking midday Israel sun. I keep scooching the chair to seek protection in the continually shrinking patch of shade. Soon it will disappear, the whole porch will shimmer in blazing white...

Oct 18, 2017, 12:39 AM

Me too. Peppered throughout Facebook posts. Like cuts through flesh; jagged, raw. Bold hurting two words, emerging from the silence as though driven, compelled. Me too. I’m sick of living in a crass over sexualized society, where sexuality is a commodity cynically...

Jul 1, 2016, 5:43 PM

Fledglings ripped from the nest

It's a terrible deja vu. I’ve written this article, and variations on it, too many times; written on the surreal aftermath of the ripping of young fledglings from their nest, of the brutal murder of innocents, on my pathetic...

Nov 30, 2015, 7:30 AM

Thank you Sarah Techiya and Ariel

I feel a little silly adding to the mountains of words, of blessings to you, of deep feelings your beautiful wedding evoked in so many thousands around the world. I know that I was mesmerized by your story of deepest...

Nov 6, 2015, 8:07 AM

A midnight cry from the other side of the pond

“When as a tourist -- you find yourself crying the moment your plane touches down in Israel, not out of joy, but because you really know the depth of the pain you will feel when you leave two or three weeks...

Mar 3, 2015, 11:22 AM

From Shushan to Washington

“It’s the same old story, yeah, Everywhere I go, I get slandered, libeled…” Paul Simon Driving home from a visit to my elderly father, the almost full moon glows as I zoom down the highway, a reminder that Purim is days away. ...

Feb 1, 2015, 11:03 PM

Tel Aviv via Zurich

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." - Robert Frost I am a sheltered American, relatively well-read. From the comforts of my home, I consider myself worldly, following the news, speaking up online and in various venues...

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About Me

Miriam Karp is a writer, artist, and lecturer, trying make light with her husband and family from their corner of the world, Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the author of Painting Zaidy's Dream: memoir of a searching soul and shares her thoughts often on Chabad.org.