Russia

December 29, 2013

My father and his sisters when they just got off the boat from Russia

Like spirits, they haunt me from this old photo–the suffering that had been through during a pogrom, hiding in a forest, making their way to […]

May 13, 2013

What wakes you from your sleep?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rochelle-jewel-shapiro/dream-on_b_3254954.html Somehow, on the Huffington Post, my essay was billed as having to do with Alzheimer’s. It’s actually a fun read and I hope that […]

August 13, 2012

The Way I Know It: In Memory of My Father

Read my essay on the Huffington Post. It’s set in Arverne, NY, and Far Rockaway, but the real setting is Russia, 1903. . http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rochelle-jewel-shapiro/father_b_1588127.html