One Schnitzel Away

One Shnitzel Away - Ronit Eitan

By Ronit Eitan – The freezer door opens, and the cool air hits me in the face, giving a momentary reprieve from August’s unbearable humidity. I reach and pull out the red plastic container full of panko breadcrumbs that sits crammed at the back. Although a sizeable container, it is surprisingly light in weight. On […]

In Rembrandt’s Workshop

Rembrandt Kolbrener עברית

By Prof. William Kolbrener – I have been sheltering – with Rembrandt. My self-portrait came with Dutch postmarks – inside the parcel, the hemp string knotted, the thick brown paper torn-open, the smooth laser-printed acrylic surface underneath. Glassy depth and weight. My portable shelter. Rembrandt made between 80 and 100 self-portraits. Hamlet has 7 soliloquies. […]

Miklat

Writing on the Wall Israel

By Vered Tohar – Blessed is my Bubbe Golda Katzikal  May her Memory be for a blessing No longer with us But always with me Not seeing Jewish children Hiding  In closets Again. Vered Tohar is professor in the Department of the Literature of the Jewish People at Bar Ilan University Translated from the Hebrew […]

No Shelter

Writing on the Wall Israel

By 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 […]

Helter Shelter

By Mendel Horowitz – 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 tempos pulsate More soundly; […]

Life Sentence

By Roy Atadgy –  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 I find comfort, but […]

Shelter in Place

Writing on the Wall Israel

By Batnadiv HaKarmi – 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. For behold there is […]

Pikachu Jew

Writing on the Wall Israel

By Erica Landis – 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. “But you don’t […]

Towers Of Tuna

Gila Green – “You don’t have to buy anymore tuna,” my 19 year old daughter said. “We have enough here for a…” She declined finishing her sentence. It was the day after Passover, in Israel, ‘Isru Chag,’ and we were turning the kitchen back into an every day one, a chametz kitchen. But there was […]

Would You Step on my Dance Floor with a Machine Gun?

Emilie Vallieres – The late afternoon light is the one I prefer It makes the life around so much brighter The wind calms down, yields the sound of the infinite Out of time Out of touch In a country so proud to shine with virtue It is still October 6th for you and me I […]