[This piece was originally published on Common Ground News Service] Jerusalem – Late last month I went to the children’s memorial in Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem. I stood there and took in […]
Author: Moriel Rothman-Zecher
American-Israeli writer, poet and novelist.
Demolition of a Play Place in Silwan
The cruelty of the Occupation continues to astonish me. I was woken a bit before 7 AM with news that the Israel Nature and Parks Authority had begun demolishing the community center and playground in […]
Tu B’Shvat 2012: On Renewal, Trees, Palestine, the Army, Injustice and Hope
I haven’t felt an urge– a need, even– to write like the one I am feeling now for a long time. My fingers are a bit stiff from the February Jerusalem air and from the […]
Pickles from Grapes
So, I’ve started volunteering one day a week at an Arab-Jewish bilingual pre-Kindergarten, which is both as enjoyable as it sounds, and also pretty inspiring and thought-provoking (and sad that it is the only one of […]
Identities of Contradiction
After a year and half of working on this video project, “Identities of Contradiction,” I finished it this past May, right before graduation, with the help of Professor Huda Fakhreddine. I screened it at Middlebury, and so […]
The Leftern Wall 