Please turn JavaScript on
Find more feeds
The Jewish Writing Project icon

The Jewish Writing Project

Click on the "Follow" button below and you'll get the latest news from The Jewish Writing Project via email, mobile or you can read them on your personal news page on this site.

You can unsubscribe anytime you want easily.

You can also choose the topics or keywords that you're interested in, so you receive only what you want.

The Jewish Writing Project title: The Jewish Writing Project | Exploring what it means to be Jewish

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  0.16 / day

Message History

My Name is Chaim — Life!
By Herbert Munshine (Great Neck, NY) We were Jewish when I was growing up, American-style, New York-style Jewish, the way our nearby kosher deli was kosher but not kosher enough to be patronized by the more religious Chasidim. We patronized … Continue reading ...

Read full story
The telephone call I wish I could answer on Shabbat
by Steve Lipman (Forest Hills, NY) I miss my mother’s telephone calls on Shabbat, which is an unusual statement for an Orthodox Jew to make. Talking on the phone, as any Torah-observant Jew knows, is forbidden on the Jewish day of …

Read full story
Encounters with Yiddish: The Old in the New World
By Ronald H. Linden (Pittsburgh, PA) Among the basic tools we carry with us in life are our personal language experiences; what we heard first as infants, conversations around the dinner table, the cacophony of our larger communities. If we pay attention and are good mimics, we can …

Read full story
A Kugel Story
by Hillary Powell (Brooklyn, NY) We crowded into a small apartment in Brooklyn after my mother’s second cousin’s funeral. My maternal grandmother was one of six children and maternal grandfather one of five. In many ways this childhood memory blurred … Continue readin...

Read full story
Immigrants All
by Miriam Bassuk (Seattle, WA) I come from wandering Jews, merchants, lawyers, teachers, grocery store owners. I come from those who rode steerage slept above deck in turbulent seas, walked miles as young teens to depart from Bremen, Germany leaving … Continue readin...

Read full story