ESSAYS

Personal Essays

MY SON AND MY FATHER SPEAK A SECRET JEWISH LANGUAGE
Kveller
June 16, 2022
 

“First I eat snack, then I play Fußball and that’s my sipur!” 

Translation: “First I eat snack, then I play soccer and that’s my story.” 

You’d need to know three languages – English, German and Hebrew – to decipher that. [...]

BEFRIENDING LANGUAGE
The Canadian Jewish News
May 4, 2022

Without much forethought, I found myself raising a multilingual family. My partner, who hails from a tiny Bavarian town, speaks German with our two children, while I speak Hebrew. Since we live in Toronto, English is a given. Our fantasy of trilingual children hasn’t quite unfolded as imagined, however. [...]

JUST A LITTLE DROP

The Canadian Jewish News

February 19, 2019

We had just climbed into the car, Waze route calculated, toddler strapped in. I was tapping away on my iPhone, rapidly entering credit card information in the blithe manner with which my generation has grown accustomed to spending money. But this wasn’t a normal purchase, which is why I started to giggle. [...]