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Dec 14, 2025, 2:48 AM

What They’re Talking About When They Talk About the Intifada

As my mother was dying in America, growing weaker month by month, the flowers out on our porch were dying, too. It couldn't be helped. It was Israel's sabbatical year. By Jewish law, the earth lay fallow. I couldn't...

Oct 29, 2025, 6:47 AM

Both sons now: The other mother

I’ve looked at life through both sides now. – Songwriter Joni Mitchell One long-ago morning during the Hezbollah War, when the skies were baby-blue, clouds drifted sweetly, and fragrant trees were reborn and blossoming, a sleep-deprived mother, running on E for Empty,...

May 8, 2025, 6:12 AM

Berlin in the Promised Land

A conference was held in Berlin on September 21st 1939 at which the long-term future of Jewry was duscussed.....In Berlin on April 29th, 1945, Adolf Hitler dictated his political testament....Hitler decided to die in Berlin so as not "to fall...

Mar 31, 2025, 4:34 AM

Happiness has as many names, at any given moment, as the dreams in a person’s heart, and as many definitions, in any particular historical era. as there are human beings looking for her. As a child, what I wanted was...

Mar 5, 2025, 1:32 PM

On the use by writers of artificial intelligence

Among those of us in the field of writing, many questions have been raised about the use of AI, Artificial Intelligence. Less mention is made nowadays than was the case a year or two ago, regarding the moral issue...

Feb 14, 2025, 5:32 PM

Tree At My Window

I sometimes wonder how it is that I can sit looking at the tree outside the window for who knows how long. I’m afraid that I’m wasting time, and if in fact that’s what I’m doing—being lazy—my mother would...

Jul 5, 2024, 12:44 AM

The Other Mother

One long-ago morning during the Hezbollah War, when the skies were baby-blue, clouds drifted sweetly, and fragrant trees were reborn and blossoming, a sleep-deprived mother, running on E for Empty, was rushing out to the cheder bus, her 6-year-old...

Apr 15, 2024, 12:08 AM

Springtime in Jerusalem 5784

It wasn’t yet hot, and wasn’t cold. Not young anymore, but not really old, either. People are suffering, yes. It’s true. The world’s on fire. What can you do. So she took herself shopping, first time in a while, to do something nice, just...

Jul 12, 2023, 9:59 AM

When grownups are helpless

One of the standard hallmarks of childhood is a sense of powerlessness, in relation both to one’s family and to the world at large. To be a small person surrounded by giants is an experience all humans share –...

May 3, 2023, 2:58 PM

All earth to love: My father slowed the nuclear arms race

(Courtesey)

The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty he negotiated still stands, but it has too much lethal wiggle room when it comes to protecting what really matters

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Sarah Shapiro's newest book is "An Audience of One, and Other Stories" [Mosaica/Feldheim]

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