identity – Shoshana Sarah

The Point of a Compass

I left home before graduation and moved in with him when I was seventeen. My mother called the police and said he was “harboring a minor.” The police car picked me up at his apartment to take me home. I went back the next day. She also took my passport. I reported it as stolen, and he bought me a new one. We went to the courthouse on my 18th birthday and signed the marriage certificate. A month later, we were on a plane to Israel.

The first compasses did not always point north. Early compasses pointed east.

Carry Me Home: A Testimony of Orly Portal’s Swiria

It’s where all of my parts could finally meet.

Gifting Myself

All I know is, I promise to heed my inner compass, trust myself, bring my fire.

Multicultural as the New Multiracial

It’s less about belonging to a color than belonging to a culture.

We are a threat to the national identity

In addition to my beloved Poets of Babel, I’ve started a new page called “We are a threat to the national identity.” It was an impromptu reaction to this article about the ban of a book (Borderlife by Dorit Rabinyan) in which there is a Jewish-Palestinian love affair. But honestly, this is really the resultContinue reading “We are a threat to the national identity”