My Grandmother’s Harrowing Journey From Nazi Germany To America
Grandma panics when she sees a child separated from his or her parent. When she sees a child alone, she becomes visibly distraught.
As We Celebrate Our Exodus, Let’s Not Forget Our Role In Slavery
Celebrating Passover in the south, it’s hard to separate our exodus story from America’s history of slavery.
Fat Tuesday Our Way — The Best Jewish Food In New Orleans
Shaya is far from the only eatery offering excellent Jewish cuisine in this culinary capital.
Gumbo Shabbat In New Orleans — Treyf But True?
It’s not lost on the writer that she throws the least kosher Shabbat either side of the Mason-Dixon Line. For her, it’s a means of adapting in non-Jewish spaces.
On Mardi Gras, Are Jews Still Outsiders in New Orleans?
Jews have long been a part of New Orleans’ frenzied history — but in some ways, they are still not completely integrated into the city’s society.
Is This Sugarcane Plantation ‘America’s Auschwitz’?
The Whitney Plantation has been called “America’s Auschwitz,” and the story it tells shows parallels between the Jewish and African-American experiences.
Citizen
In this year of police shootings and #BlackLivesMatter, Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric” proved to be a significantly insightful read.
How Do You Teach the Holocaust to Kids Who’ve Never Heard of It?
New “Teach For America” instructor Sophia-Marie Unterman wonders how she’ll teach the Holocaust if her new students have never heard of it before.
8 Things You’ll Need To Know If You’re a Jew Living in Exile
Growing up in Kansas and living in Louisiana, Sophia-Marie Unterman has become an expert on living as a Jew in exile. Here are her eight tips for survival in what many Jews think of as flyover country.
Journey to a Land Where Jews Are Wax and Anti-Semitism Is Kitsch
Sophia Marie Unterman went to Poland with her family in search of her grandmother’s home. What she found was a troubling land of anti-semitic kitsch reminiscent of a Jewish Rainforest Café.