Living Jewish Literature With Faye Moskowitz
“Ethan, it’s far past time you took a class with Faye. I’ve already told her you’ll be there.”
“Ethan, it’s far past time you took a class with Faye. I’ve already told her you’ll be there.”
When we launched our column celebrating stories of love, fate and connection, it was obvious what the name would be: Beshert. It was also obvious that the inaugural column should come from Faye Moskowitz.
There are many terms for encounters that were meant to be, but none quite as evocative as the Yiddish word beshert.
“I met my beshert 25 years ago this past March. I had just come off a year of not dating after a bad relationship. I was getting more comfortable with myself and what made me happy and decided that part of that happiness would be a loving, supportive relationship.”
“Turn off your lights! / Turn them off! / Heh heh heh,” the radio coughs. / The Olga Coal Company presents
I was at a Labor Zionist meeting the night my mother died.
I recently asked undergraduates in my Jewish literature class at George Washington University whether the name Herman Wouk meant anything to any of them. Not a single hand went up; not a single nod of recognition. Caine Mutiny? No response.
with Robert Aumann, Theodore Bikel, Leon Fleisher, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jerome Groopman, Ruth Gruber, Fanya Heller, Madeleine Kunin, Walter Laqueur,
JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH 2015 // Leonard Fein, who passed away in 2014, and Elie Wiesel—both writers deeply concerned about Judaism and Jews—founded Moment to be an independent voice in the Jewish American community.
I sat in front of our black-and-white 19-inch TV watching the progress of the war, my heart in my mouth the whole time.