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Essay “I Am a Bombay on the Move”: Growing Up Jewish and Jain An exploration of religious and racial displacement Diane Mehta June 17, 2019
Essay Marilyn Sachs, Forgotten Pioneer in Children’s Literature At a time when children’s literature was filled with picture-perfect families, Marilyn Sachs painted a darker, richer reality. Emily Schneider June 3, 2019
Essay Doppelgänger: Or Aya and Me Ayelet Tsabari writes a “strange, unexpected postscript” to her essay “A Simple Girl,” excerpted in the 2019 issue of Paper Brigade. Ayelet Tsabari May 14, 2019
Essay Twenty-one Notes on Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century’ Lucy Biederman May 3, 2019
Essay—From the Journal Point of Contact Making songs and poems about Torah. Alicia Jo Rabins April 30, 2019
Essay—From the Journal Papa Stalin and the Happy Family On Communist Yiddish children’s books in the Soviet Union and United States. Miriam Udel April 29, 2019