J’Accuse

One of the most famous letters ever written was by the renowned French novelist Émile Zola. It was published in 1898 under the title “J’Accuse” (I Accuse). Zola accused the President of France and the military command of prejudice for knowingly convicting an innocent man of treason. That man was a Jew, Alfred Dreyfus. Zola […]

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The Tale of Two Masks

Since 2020, the Western world has been on a covered-face fetish. The pandemic made the N95 mask an indispensable artifact of the coronavirus—more important an accessory than the iPhone. We came to accept that protecting our respiratory systems meant forfeiting our facial identities. Soon faces were masked for infections of a different sort. Viruses migrated […]

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The Divine Us – A Poem for Sukkot

These are the parts of the Lulav and Etrogwe have held in our hands since we firstwandered the desert – LulavHow impressive you are, our spine, straight and bold.Pain, heat, softness, even tickling – every one of ourphysical feelings travels your distance. HadasYou are our eyes through which we see allthat there is to see. […]

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