Our pro-democracy work reflects that most Jewish of all frustrations – Not Yet. We can envision a future where the right to vote becomes unquestionable and enshrined in our constitution. “Not yet” implies that it is coming, that what we are working for is inevitable – we just have to get there. In Genesis, promises …
When I taught high school English, my students would glean important messages and themes by looking for motifs – what phrases or ideas were repeated in the text? Repetition of ideas and concepts in text is a clue that it is important or central to the text. In our holy text, “welcoming the stranger,” and …
As an American Jew, I am of two minds when it comes to America. Like nearly everybody that went through the public school system in this country, my social studies education was taught through a white supremacist lens— not overtly or intentionally but white supremacist all the same. All my life, White Supremacist meant to …
Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett I won’t lie. I’d never heard of Airborne Toxic Event before picking this book up. Coincidentally, I’d been reading White Noise by Don DeLillo, which is about… an Airborne Toxic Event. Worlds collide… or something! The word that comes up for me again and again with this book is heartbreaking, …
I’ll say it right here: Embodying Soul, by Keri Mangis, is not normally the type of book I read. What’s unusual about Embodying Soul is that it seems to be a type all its own. Part memoir, part metaphysical exploration, Keri Mangis looks backward to look forward, and make herself whole. I admittedly was more …
Welcome Back to A Blessing and A Curse. In this 4th installment of A Blessing and a Curse, I welcome Lila Diller. Lila shares with us the challenges of having a limb difference. Insight from a Mom with a Limb Difference I really resonated with Nancy when she talked about being hearing impaired. Though I …
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Alice Hoffman is the queen of magical realism and with good reason. In Alice Hoffman’s latest book, The World That We Knew, I was drawn into the world that Hoffman created through her vivid descriptions and poignantly drawn characters. I would call it the best World War II book I’ve read yet, aside from All …
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Does it matter if the assumptions made about you are true or not? Does it put your behavior in a different light when someone has your backstory? Or should your actions be judged by its own merits? Does ignorance and lack of awareness ever justify giving someone the benefit of the doubt or cutting them …
