Tag: Jerusalem

If you would like to contribute a piece to Iron Words, please click here.

Writing from home
Mallory Serebrin

Diary Entry: Days 24 and 25 – Sugar  

For some, the act of just getting to a shelter is an anxiety-producing activity, especially for families with small kids that have to go down flights of stairs to the building bomb shelter, or run to the closest one in the neighborhood. My mother’s former caretaker who now cares for a 90+ invalid woman has to leave her in her bed or her wheelchair and retreat to the shelter downstairs alone, leaving R upstairs in her apartment.  

Read More »

Letter From Jerusalem: We Are Not Okay

They say the night is darkest before dawn. It certainly is very dark right now.   I pray that dawn is coming soon. It better be. Because the darkness is bleak, palpable, encompassing. As I write

Read More »

Diary Entry: Day 3 – Just in Case

Just got up. Have not checked the news yet. Rumblings in the distance were like thunder all night. Since Jerusalem is a no-fly zone, any aircraft that comes near is military. I am sure they have

Read More »