Summary: The Forward’s Sisterhood blog on April 5, 2011, published an article I wrote about author Phoebe Potts’ workshop on memoir. The piece gives a taste of the workshop and of the author, who’s as funny, irreverent, and poignant as her graphic comic memoir, Good Eggs.
Summary: Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion, a memoir about her journey toward faith, talks about what inspires her as a writer in an interview I conducted with her for the February 2011 issue of The Writer .
Summary: Jewish organizations around the nation are trying to woo young families through meet-ups, activities outside of shuls. My article for The Forward, a national Jewish weekly newspaper, ran online on Dec. 22, 2010, and ran in print editions on Dec. 31, 2010.
Summary: How can we make Hanukkah more about a celebration than about a shopping frenzy? In a November 2010 article for The Jewish Advocate, I described my family’s attempt to downplay gifts in favor of togetherness and celebration.
To read the article, published in The Jewish Advocate, click here.
Summary: Should we downplay gifts at Hanukkah? Four rabbis from the Boston-area weigh in on Hanukkah and the role gifts should or should not play in my November 2010 article for The Jewish Advocate.
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Yizkor at Yom Kippur can be one of the most powerful moments of the High Holy Days and one of the most terrifying. High Holy Days often draw the largest crowds, and mourners in different stages of grief may be nervous about displaying their personal sorrow among hundreds.
Today, I thank Rabbi David Stern, the senior rabbi of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, for teaching me about the beauty, power, and even the angst of yizkor. I left Dallas for Boston in 2004, but Rabbi Stern’s lesson of a decade ago remains … Continue reading
Summary: My book review, published in The Boston Globe, of Hans Keilson’s novel, Comedy in a Minor Key. Keilson’s novel, originally published in German in 1947, was released in English in the summer of 2010.
Summary: The Forward, a national Jewish weekly paper, published my op-ed that took issue with a Newsweek columnist’s stance that it costs to much to live Jewishly. My take: Temples never, in my experience, have asked me for money just to come through the door.
Summary: Spending three years as an assistant city editor at The Boston Globe taught me valuable lessons as a writer. Read my Off the Cuff column in the July 2010 issue of The Writer about the lessons I put into practice.
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My 4-month-old baby boy nestled in my arms, I walked into the sanctuary hoping to discreetly slip back into a seat by my husband.
“Simon,” Rabbi Howard Jaffe called out in his booming voice. “Come join us.”
It was time for the Aleinu prayer, and our temple’s tradition was to invite children to participate and open the doors of the ark.
Take my baby up to the bimah? What was the point?
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