By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence As a child, I clearly remember the first time I realized how many different hashkafot there were and how little respect many people had for the ones not like theirs. I was a new student in a new community in the Five Towns. I had just moved with my family […]
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence I was recently published in a magazine and wondered if it confused others reading the article when I was referred to by my three last names, randomly and in different configurations within the article. My friend Elisheva, who edits that publication, was nothing less than horrified as she scanned the […]
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch I stood in the middle of the Ghetto Fighters Museum we visited this summer with the TJJ program and listened to the various accounts of the women whose family members had gone through the war. We walked about the room observing the various collections of personal effects that belonged to families […]
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch I truly feel like I owe my grandmother an apology. Sadly, she passed away in May, so I don’t get to express my regrets in person, but I’ve been thinking about her more often, due to what’s been going on lately. In a way, I am relieved that a woman who […]
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Of all the things I could’ve predicted writing about on the other side of a busy yontif season, I assure you that this never crossed my mind. And even with all we’ve been through as a Jewish nation, and personally as a woman who’s been through her share of trauma, I […]