Broken-Hearted

Jewish Life, ResistanceJena SchwartzApril 22, 2020antisemitism, Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance Day Comment

Ancestral Memory

What is "real" memory and what is imprinted on us by exposure or repetition?

Jewish LifeJena SchwartzNovember 10, 2019kristallnacht, memory, ancestors, trauma, Jewish history, Jewish memory, Holocaust Comment

If I Had Three Wishes

The first came easily -- for Mani's health to be 100% restored. The others, though, I thought long and hard about as I drove south through farmland and evening light.

Real Life, Resistance, Jewish LifeJena SchwartzJuly 13, 2019slavery, suffering, resistance, Jewish, Jews, diaspora, exile, refugees, Three Wishes, lineage, ancestor, Holocaust, climate change, Immigration, Justice Comment

Israel: From Imagination to Reality

I listened to all of it, rapt, attentive, a sponge, ears open, heart open, receptive, learning, discerning, knowing that we would have a completely different experience with a different guide, a different perspective and history.

Jewish LifeJena SchwartzJune 6, 2019Israel, Travel, Travel Writing, Memoir, Belonging, Jewish, Jewish Mysticism, Middle East, Palestine, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Kotel, Western Wall, Tzfat, Negev, Holocaust, Memory, Home, Homecoming, Yehuda Mahane, Dead Sea, Mediterranean, Kibbutz, Zionism, Sabra Comment

The Four Worlds, or Why Every Offering Counts

Action, emotion, intellect, spirit. To live predominantly in only one of these worlds is to miss so much information.

Jewish Life, Resistance, Real LifeJena SchwartzFebruary 18, 2019Gad Beck, Holocaust, Sanctuary, Lucio Perez, Irida Kakhtiranova, Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism, daily life, nazi, Amazon, LGBTQ Comment

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