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RI Playwright Explores Jewish Experience After Oct. 7 Attacks in ‘Picking Up Stones’

Sandy Laub performs her one-person play “Picking Up Stones: An American Jew Wakes to a Nightmare.”
Sandy Laub
Sandy Laub performs her one-person play “Picking Up Stones: An American Jew Wakes to a Nightmare.”

Former Chariho High School English teacher Sandy Laub reflects on the year since the attacks on Israel

The Jewish High Holy Days this year have also been a time of reflection and mourning a year after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.

Rhode Island playwright Sandy Laub wrote a one-person play after the tragedy called “Picking Up Stones: An American Jew Wakes to a Nightmare.”

She sat down with Alex Nunes of The Public's Radio to share her thoughts a year after the attacks.

This interview was conducted by The Public's Radio. You can read the entire story here.

Alex was the interim Managing Editor for The Public's Radio. Alex was previously the co-host and co-executive producer of The Public’s Radio podcast, Mosaic. The show explored the history of immigration in Southern New England through the stories of individual immigrants and their descendants and received an Edward R. Murrow Award for best podcast in the New England region. Alex previously worked as an editor at The Westerly Sun and The New London Day.
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