An essay on writing fiction in Jerusalem, on friendship in Jerusalem, on leaving Jerusalem, published today in the Paris Review’s The Daily blog: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/18/writing-fiction-shadow-jerusalem/
Category: Reflections & Analyses
Five Years on The Leftern Wall – Looking Back & Forward
Five years ago, I started this blog. I’ve checked in each year, on or around the anniversary – years one, two, three, four – to reflect, out loud, on what the past year has contained. This year […]
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 […]
Oppression Does Not Ennoble
We were slaves in the land of Egypt. We killed all of their first born sons, the moment we had the chance. Today we are free to choose our own path, one not dictated by whips and […]
Four Year Blobversary (reflections on it all)
Four years, huh? (Blobversary’s One, Two and Three, including explanations of what a Blobversary is). Kayla and I just landed last night, back in Jerusalem, after two and a half weeks in the Bay Area, mostly […]
Top 5 Posts of 2015
(1) 9 thoughts on the matisyahu disinvite, anti-semitism, anti-zionism and leftist discourse Published on August 17th, 2015. ”I want to invite others on the Left, Jewish and non-Jewish, to join the struggle against anti-Semitism in our […]
18 Mini-Prayers for This New Year
Originally posted on The Leftern Wall:
1. In this new year, may justice rain down like fish. Could also be a metaphor for activism… 2. In this new year, may we find reason to laugh…
An American-Israeli’s reflections from Germany: I am indigenous-dispossessed here (Haaretz)
[This piece was originally published in Haaretz on July 23rd, 2015] AUGSBURG, Germany — I am indigenous here. I am indigenous-dispossessed here. I was born in West Jerusalem and raised mostly in Southwest Ohio, and […]
Yom HaAtzmaut: A Third Day of National Mourning?
Yom HaShoah Last week, on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, I drove from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. I flicked on the radio – Gal gal gal galgalatz – and for the next hour, I found […]
The Orange Tree: An Israeli reserve soldier speaks about loss
Originally posted on The Leftern Wall:
Guest writer: E. On the 22nd day of your 8th Order* you get 24 hours off. All you want to do is run away, to some small island of…
The Leftern Wall 