In an effort to encourage readers to explore what it means to be Jewish in their daily lives, The Jewish Writing Project will offer suggestions for writing practice from time to time.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve never kept a journal before, or if you prefer writing on yellow legal pads, or if you type [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 29, 2009
Writing Practice: On Being Jewish
June 22, 2009
Remembering Who I Am
By Monica Rozenfeld (New York, NY)
“It’s Friday! It’s Friday!” my grandmother screamed in distress after Mom turned off the lights in the bedroom. “It’s Friday!”
I was sitting there, witness to the mayhem, not understanding why turning off the lights had anything to do with it being Friday.
I thought that my grandmother had hit some sort [...]
June 15, 2009
Praying for Trout
by Eric Eisenkramer (Ridgefield, CT)
In the course of my years of fly fishing, I have probably spoken dozens of prayers while on the stream. When the sun was well below the horizon, and there was just enough light to tie on one more fly, I said to myself: “Please let one more trout rise.” When [...]
June 1, 2009
On Writing a Poem Related to the Holocaust
by Susan L. Lipson (Poway, CA)
My student came to me with a school assignment: write a poem in response to a Holocaust victim’s poem, “The Butterfly,” by Pavel Friedmann.
We discussed the particular juxtaposition of a yellow butterfly’s beauty with the haunting images of life in the Jewish ghetto, and the symbol of hope amid the [...]
