The Jewish artist in me feels displaced. I want to have time to write, to create literature which expands our notion of our Jewishness, which might i… - Irena Klepfisz

Only by placing the Holocaust in a larger framework, by insisting on moving toward a Jewish future that is informed, but not defined, by the Holocaust, can we develop a productive way of relating to each other and the rest of the world. Such an approach guarantees memory, without sacrificing the present or future.

For too long our preoccupation with Israel (either in the form of Zionism or fundraising for Israel as the primary content of our Jewish identity or in the form of political opposition to Israeli government actions) has prevented us from seeing and dealing with Jewish identity, and Jewish life in the U.S.

As a child, my first conscious feeling about being Jewish was that it was dangerous, something to be hidden.