Eliana Fischel

B’sha’ah tovah and superstition during my pandemic-era pregnancy

Persecutions, pogroms, and power struggles have programmed Jews to expect the worst. This manifests most in oft-stereotyped Jewish worry. Stuck in traffic? We will never get to our destination and every gas station along the way will be closed. Our food delivery is ten minutes late? They forgot our order and we will go hungry…