I’m old now. I didn’t take that in until my latest February birthday. Reaching it, I’m three years older than my mother who died at...

Seeing photos of dead Palestinian children no longer shocks me. But if we had a wall chart measuring years on earth, my line would reach the

I don’t really want to be part of the conversation around what’s happening in the Middle East. I don’t have to, actually. I’m not a...

We Jews were often lauded for our cosmopolitanism. In today’s Israel, the desire of those in power is to assert Jewish supremacy.

Recently, three people close to me opened--or closed-- depending on how you see it. One was my brother-in-law Jim.

Zimbabwe, August, 2022 Zimbabwe is a beautiful, distressed, struggling country of 15 million. Its government is corrupt, its social...

‘Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness’... From John Keats, 'To Autumn' This time of year, September, has always had an aspect of...

In June, Emerging Voices presented a three part series on Zoom: Examining Palestine/Israel. This series will continue in October.

From a poem by Siegfried Sassoon SQUIRE nagged and bullied till I went to fight, …. I died in hell— (They called it Passchendaele). My...

Part I This is my fifth war when I'm counting as an American. There was the Cold War; then Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. Those are...

I have outlived my mother. Our February birthdays were two days apart. She died twenty minutes before another year would have begun....

by Rose Levinson Photo by Julia Yee From William Carlos Williams Tract “I will teach you my townspeople How to perform a funeral. Or do...

...the old is dying and the new cannot be born Antonio Gramsci, circa 1930 Emerging from the latest round of Covid-19 lockdown feels like...

“And to make an end is to make a beginning.” Little Gidding. T.S. Eliot I measure time by my years on earth. I measure time by the...

If I live to my next birthday, I’ll be the age my mother died, forty minutes short of hers. My mother’s memory looms over me, as it has...

During the lockdown, even ageing was suspended. Everything stopped. No visits to doctors, dentists. No worries that my pains were heart...

Birthday party through a window Waving, singing, hands and lips on glass. The New Normal. On the sidewalk, I outstretch my arm Warning...

I am that woman. And I hate being old. It’s not just because my seventies inevitably means death is closer. It’s because I hate being...

It’s no longer a ‘crisis’. It’s reality. Remain is dead. Brexit is the world we live in, normalizing fear and destroying  ties that bound...

"Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion." Directive, Robert Frost, 1946 Harsh,...

The road is never straight, the way is seldom clear. I went to Savannah, Georgia, to take part in a Jewish wedding. I ended making a...

.".. in the centre of our lives, this time, this day... this spring among the politicians playing cards. In a village of the indigenes,...

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Tolstoy; Anna Karenina Family: Oxford English Dictionary: A...

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. -- T.S. Eliot The Hollow Men 1925 Choking on Brexit, Trump, climate...

Outsider, definition: one not involved with a particular group of people or organization, one who does not live in a particular place; in...

These pictures are from a demonstration at London's British Broadcasting Corporation headquarters organized by Extinction Rebellion which...

I've gone through life implicitly believing in key notions of the Enlightenment: reason, knowledge, freedom, skepticism. Sure there were...

The US midterm election is over. Democrats now control the House of Representatives. Republicans have a majority in the Senate. And a...

"It is difficult to get the news from poems, but people die everyday for lack of what is found there" - William Carlos Williams

Check the online definition. You learn a rhinocerous is a large, heavily built  mammal with one or two horns on its nose and thick folded...

I’m weary beyond words at the ongoing disaster that is Brexit. Yes, I'm an American citizen who cannot vote in the UK. Fundamentally, I’m...

‘When I was a child, I spake as a child. …. My mother was angry when  I came home from secondary school with a grade D in maths class....

The recent furore over anti-semitism in political circles in the UK pushes me back again into that circle of identity: Jew. When asked...

A traditional Jewish saying cautions "all beginnings are difficult." It's an apt reminder for my first blog post. I've written a book, ...