Portrait of Emma Lazarus

Mrs. Levy made it her business to be our eyes and ears, the supplier of all information and news. Her job would be easy this time—she had the good fortune to live directly across the street from…

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the house of a potter, and there I will impart My words to you.” So I went down to the house of a potter, and found him working at the…

The sea tore a rib from its side and said: Go! Lie down there, be a sign that I am great and mighty. Go be a sign. The canal lies at my window, speechless. What can be sadder than water without…