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Sample Sources

The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
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Clockwork Doll

That night, I was a clockwork doll and I whirled around, this way and that, and I fell on my face and shattered to bits and they tried to fix me with all their skill. Then I was a proper doll once…

Each Rose

Each rose is an island of the promised peace, the eternal peace. Inside the petals of each rose dwells a sapphire bird called “And They Shall Beat Their Swords.” And it seems so close, the light…

The Case of Boris Kochubiyevsky

On May 13–16th, 1969, the Kiev Regional Court examined the case of Boris Kochubiyevsky, accused under article 187-1 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code, which corresponds to article 190-1 of the Russian…

Family Sayings

After the war the world seemed vast, unknowable and boundless. However, my mother went back to living in the world as best she could, happily, for she had a happy nature. Her spirit could never grow…

The Teaching of Torah to Women

Gentlemen! This Shabbat, with God’s help, I decided to continue in the interpretation of the article by the blessed teacher Rabbi Meir, may his merit protect us, amen, who said that “whoever is…

Israel: The Ever-Dying People

Is Israel alone a dying nation? Numerous civilizations have disappeared before there emerged the one in which we live so happily and unhappily at the same time. Each dying civilization was confident…

Jew and Gentile in the New South

There is very little real anti-Semitism in the South. There is even a solid tradition of philo-Semitism, the explanation of which lies in the very character of Southern Protestantism itself—in the…

The Feminine Mystique

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered…

Water without Sound

The sea tore a rib from its side and said: Go! Lie down there, be a sign that I am great and mighty. Go be a sign. The canal lies at my window, speechless. What can be sadder than water without…

The Tip of the Yod

Hebrew woman, who knows your life? You came in darkness and in darkness depart. Your sorrows and joys, your hopes and desires Were born within you and die in your heart. Daughters of other nations Ma…