No Shelter
Noa Offek – I don’t believe in statistics. Let me rephrase — I have too much respect for potential scenarios to accept the flattened statistical version presented to the masses in goodwill and with a reassuring smile. My grandparents have thirty seconds to get to a shelter when the siren goes off. But statistics do […]
Helter Shelter
Mendel Horowitz is a practicing psychotherapist in Jerusalem My grandparents had their silence, Noah had his ark. My neighbors have their refuge On the second floor. With blast doors, First aid kits and Psalms, Rechargeable batteries, water, And emergency lights. I have mostly these words On this paper, And explosive music In my head. Some […]
Life Sentence
Roy Atadgy is a novelist, living in Westchester, Pennsylvania I’m known to hide in sentences. Living between punctuation, Rubix-cubing words, interrogating them, inspecting them obsessively––this is my ultimate comfort. When it comes to sentences, to the battleground of sentences (in which words are disordered soldiers), deciphering its perfect architecture, ordering the disorder, is not only where […]
Shelter in Place
Batnadiv HaKarmi is a Jerusalem based painter and writer May the Place console you amongst the other mourners of Zion and Jerusalem – Traditional Jewish blessing to mourners Hamakom yenahem — may the Place console, may your room be a comfort, may your house embrace; may you shelter in her arms, may she kiss your face. […]
Pikachu Jew
Erica Landis is a NYC-based writer – I once dressed up as a giant yellow Pikachu. I was newly in crush with my now husband and he needed someone to wear this rented costume outside the video game store he managed. “I’ll do it!” I said. “You will?” he said. “Sure, why not?” I said. […]
Gimme Shelter
By Maya Sela – Host of ‘מה שכרוך’ (Ma She’karuch) on KAN Radio (Original Hebrew text below – הטקסט המקורי בעברית מופיע בהמשך) Maybe I’ve lost my mind. I have no desire for a foreign passport, and I don’t want to escape. On October 7th, I sat alone in my apartment in Tel Aviv and […]
