Isaiah Newman

Mar 5, 2024 | joylandmagazine.com | Isaiah Newman |Michelle Lyn King

At a bar mitzvah lesson in late November, Isaac asks if Harry Potter is a golem. It’s two months since his older brother Josh’s death, and three days since his first failed attempt at making a golem of his own. Rabbi Bloom laughs, but the sound is less of the barn-owl in the belly Isaac hoped for and more of a crow in the throat. Even though the Rabbi looks like a brown-bearded version of Santa Claus, he never sounds like it.