Category: non-fiction

Seven years ago, I stood in biting wind at the edge of an empty field in rural Lithuania, feeling defeated. The field was not actually […]

  The decision has been made. We will make aliyah and join our children in Israel. It’s 1947; it’s time. Yes, it’s a pity that we are […]

  North Shore, Oahu Winter waves thunder against a quiet landscape. Clash and combine, an angry swirl of blues lifting up and crashing down, and […]

Episode I: Summer, 1999…… It is a hopeful time in the Middle East. A new Israeli Prime Minister has promised to make peace between longtime […]

  ‘What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.’                                       Yiddish Proverb   The new direction of the train woke me. Vertical. I looked out […]

In 1995 I visited my cousin Vera in a London hospital, which struck me as a pleasant and welcoming place, despite it being a hospital, […]

Several children at the John D. Runkle Elementary School in Brookline, Massachusetts in the 1950s used to make fun of our classmate Claire. Her eyes […]

1. Orphan Long Island, 1998 During the summer of 1998, two major things happened that shaped my decision to find grandparents for Rachel:  during that summer […]

Don’t be a JAP. That was the clear message I had been given my entire childhood. It seemed like the most important thing NOT to […]

   “I don’t understand why, why they meekly went to their deaths!”           These words surfaced in my memory for the first time recently, five years […]