Sarah Sassoon, at The Blogs

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Nov 8, 2015, 12:16 PM

People told me, they warned me, ‘Israel is hard.’ So I shouldn’t complain. I knew what I was coming to. But they didn’t tell me properly. They didn’t really explain. The hardest thing about Aliyah is the laundry. Now I...

Sep 12, 2015, 10:49 PM

Dear God

Dear God It’s a few days before Rosh Hashana and I’m not ready. I haven’t gone to Slichot in the wee hours of the night. I haven’t sat in self reflection with lists of my good, bad and fugly qualities....

Sep 2, 2015, 10:47 AM

Making Aliyah

So we've made Aliyah. Aliyah is such a loaded word. Literally ‘aliyah’ means to ‘go up’. There’s only one country we ‘go up’ to and that’s Eretz Yisrael - the land of Israel. We traverse the world upwards physically in...

About Me

Sarah is an Australian born, Iraqi Jewish writer, poet, and educator. She is the author of the award winning picture book, Shoham’s Bangle and This is Not a Cholent. Her poetry micro chapbook, This is Why We Don’t Look Back was awarded the Harbor Review Jewish Women’s Poetry prize. Her poetry and personal essays have been published in Consequence Forum, Hadassah Magazine, Michigan Quarterly and elsewhere. She is an editorial advisor for Distinctions: A Sephardi and Mizrahi Journal. She is also the joint author of the The In-Between a literary dialogue about identity and belonging. She received her MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Bar Ilan University. She lives in Jerusalem with her husband and four boys. Visit www.sarahsassoon.com

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