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10 Ways to Use Your Words to Spread Love and Peace
This time of year is known on the Jewish calendar as the Nine Days, which culminate in the saddest day of the year, Tisha B’Av. This fast day is the anniversary of many tragic events in Jewish...
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Cold shoulder or pit bulls? On Peter Beinart, the Atlanta Jewish Book Fair...
I don’t often comment on news items, but this one is both Jewish and book-related, so I thought it would be worth mentioning. Earlier this year, Peter Beinart–blogger and professor–wrote a book blaming...
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Fans, friends, and trolls–publishing my first piece on Tablet
So, Tablet published a piece of mine this week. It’s been a crazy experience. In the first place, writing the piece was a bit out of my comfort zone. While I usually write fiction, this is a personal...
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How you should read a personal essay
The subtitle to this essay should read: the post in which I vent about people being mean to writers other than myself I don’t just frequent Tablet as a writer, I frequent it as a reader. So, when an...
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Writing for Children: not for those who want glory, fame, or big bucks
Last week’s Hamodia/Inyan Magazine had an article by one of my favorite columnists, Rabbi Fishel Schachter entitled “Guided by Tale Winds.” While today Rabbi Schachter is well-known in the Torah world...
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I have been swallowed whole.
Okay, really, I’ve been swallowed in pieces. Work is swallowing part of me, and my kids (all home for the summer) are swallowing the rest. There apparently isn’t much left for blogging. One little bit...
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