An inter­view about an anthol­o­gy explor­ing mar­gin­al­ized voic­es in Jew­ish history

Read an excerpt of Judith Teit­el­man’s Guest­house for Gane­sha 

At a time when chil­dren’s lit­er­a­ture was filled with pic­ture-per­fect fam­i­lies, Mar­i­lyn Sachs paint­ed a dark­er, rich­er reality.

A pre-Shavuot read

Ayelet Tsabari writes a ​“strange, unex­pect­ed post­script” to her essay ​“A Sim­ple Girl,” excerpt­ed in the 2019 issue of Paper Brigade.

Grow­ing up, Ayelet Tsabari grap­pled with Mizrahi stereo­types — and found inspi­ra­tion in Ofra Haza, Israel’s icon­ic, Yem­i­ni singer.