I’m old now. I didn’t take that in until my latest February birthday. Reaching it, I’m three years older than my mother who died at...

Seeing photos of dead Palestinian children no longer shocks me. But if we had a wall chart measuring years on earth, my line would reach the

I don’t really want to be part of the conversation around what’s happening in the Middle East. I don’t have to, actually. I’m not a...

We Jews were often lauded for our cosmopolitanism. In today’s Israel, the desire of those in power is to assert Jewish supremacy.

Recently, three people close to me opened--or closed-- depending on how you see it. One was my brother-in-law Jim.

Zimbabwe, August, 2022 Zimbabwe is a beautiful, distressed, struggling country of 15 million. Its government is corrupt, its social...

‘Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness’... From John Keats, 'To Autumn' This time of year, September, has always had an aspect of...

In June, Emerging Voices presented a three part series on Zoom: Examining Palestine/Israel. This series will continue in October.

From a poem by Siegfried Sassoon SQUIRE nagged and bullied till I went to fight, …. I died in hell— (They called it Passchendaele). My...

Part I This is my fifth war when I'm counting as an American. There was the Cold War; then Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. Those are...

I have outlived my mother. Our February birthdays were two days apart. She died twenty minutes before another year would have begun....

by Rose Levinson Photo by Julia Yee From William Carlos Williams Tract “I will teach you my townspeople How to perform a funeral. Or do...