Most of the homeless people in Berlin are Jewish. Some of them wear tattered black yarmulkes, their matted beards clinging to emaciated cheeks. Their eyes are sunken and glazed as they plead with German passersby […]
Author: Moriel Rothman-Zecher
American-Israeli writer, poet and novelist.
Hiatus
Hi friends, These past few months have, for me, been defined by my brother’s accident, by fear and relief and pain and healing and confusion and strangeness and exhaustion and hope. Since October, I have been […]
I vote for Ilhan Omar (A post-election poem).
Like a wave, I woke and felt despair crashing down around me, filling my eyes and nose and my ears. 538 and the New York Times agreed: Our President had mutated into its future self. […]
The World Was Flickering / Now the Light is Back. An Update on Jesse, my brother.
Hi friends. Here is an update I wrote a few days ago, regarding Jesse, my younger brother and best friend, who was hit by a car last week. I will be stateside and offline for a […]
In This New Year
May we keep trying to beat our swords into ploughshares Even though our hands our tired our fingers are frail Our bombs into sphygmomanometers Even though our hearts are grown heavy and sad. Because, I think, the act […]
“The main difference between the Palestinians and us…”
“The main difference between the Palestinians and us is that they name their streets after people who murdered civilians. If they were to name them after people who killed soldiers, OK, fine, but they name […]
In Praise of the Dash in “Israel-Palestine.”
Photo: Me making silly faces as I do simultaneous translation to Hebrew and Arabic for the author Jacqueline Woodson, who read one of her amazing books to a bilingual preschool class at the Jerusalem Hand in Hand […]
As simple as water (by Udi Raz)
Guest post by Udi Raz* | Photos by Oren Ziv / ActiveStills These are hot, hot August days. I try not to be outside unless I have to, and keep refilling the water bottles in the […]
Sunrise in Susiya – A Poem for the Global Shabbat Against Demolitions
Photo by A. Daniel Roth. This Shabbat, activists in 15 locations around the world will hold events, actions and Shabbat services under the framework of a Global Shabbat Against Demolition (New York City, London, Pittsburgh, Susiya, […]
“Take a deep breath, and don’t touch the American Jews.”
Photo by A. Daniel Roth A Friday of Protest and Privilege in occupied Hebron. I returned from my interrogation in high spirits. The interrogator was a smooth-armed Druze officer with hazel eyes, a slight double […]
The Leftern Wall 