Trying to Write After Charlottesville
(The beginning of this post has been edited because I accidentally posted the wrong draft.) I’ve been trying to write something in response to Charlottesville for the past two weeks, but I’ve had a hard time finding the words. It’s not...
from “The Lines That Antisemitism and Racism Draw”
Today is Shabbat Nachamu, the Sabbath of Consolation. Last year at this time, I was on a family vacation in Europe, sitting in our host’s dining room in Sweden, early in the morning while everyone else was still asleep, and writing...
Repost: Our Loving Each Other Would Not Be Now The Obstacle That It Was Then
I am reposting this piece from 2012 because in reading the exploration of cross-cultural/interracial/transnational relationships in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah I relived some of what I wrote about back then...
I Just Learned About the Equal Justice Initiative — If You Don’t Know About It, You Should
In “The Lines That Antisemitism and Racism Draw,” a series of letters I composed during the summer of 2016 that were published in December of that year, I wrote about the stolpersteine, an art project started by the German artist...