Guest writer: Angie Hsu* I did not want to come to work today. A combination of coming off the high of getting married five days ago, being surrounded by friends and family from all over […]
Author: Moriel Rothman-Zecher
American-Israeli writer, poet and novelist.
J Street is No Longer a Home for People Who Believe in Peace
Even as there are many who will roll their eyes and say, “Yes, of course, we knew from the beginning,” there is, for me, still something profoundly difficult and profoundly sad about this moment. For […]
Reflections from a visit to the Abu Khdeir family’s home in Shuafat (July Story Journal)
Guest writer: Liana Rothman.* It’s hard to explain the way things have been feeling in this area lately. The way people’s eyes seem just a little more suspicious and dubious these days. The way I […]
Guilt & The Twingling Sky in Southern Germany
I felt guilty for leaving. So much so, that I almost didn’t want to write this post, even though I’d promised to write a story every day for the month of July. Everything at home […]
Shattering, or, How People Like Me or You are Capable of Extreme Brutality
This news is not breaking. I do not break news. If anything, I feel sometimes -like these times- that the news will break me. This news is shattering. Or at least it should be. It […]
90% of The Arabs want to kill Jews (July Story Journal)
90% of The Arabs want to kill Jews? “Yes, at least.” How do you know that? “I know, it’s common sense.” Have you spoken to 90% of the Arabs? “No, but I’ve spoken to a […]
Why These Five Israelis Demonstrated Outside of the Prime Minister’s House
More than a thousand Israeli demonstrators gathered outside of the Prime Minister’s house tonight to protest. I asked five why they were there: “I am here because I am against racism.” “I am here in […]
There is no such thing as a “Revenge Attack.”
Framing matters. Language shapes reality, and reality is unwinding sickly, deadly, unreal. If the reports coming in are confirmed- and they are not confirmed yet- that it was Jewish people who kidnapped and murdered the young […]
So are you for or against expelling all of the Arabs?
By Moriel Rothman-Zecher and Yuval Orr On the sherut ride back to Moriel’s house, we talk about what is happening in Jerusalem (mobs chanting “death to Arabs,” searching for Arabs to attack, etc.) and how we […]
Yes Please from the Glum Looking Falafel Man (July Story Journal)
I said that I would write or bring a story to words every day for July. As the politics swirl, and tropes abound, the world continues. So the Leftern Wall July Story Journal tale of […]
The Leftern Wall 