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Essay Have You Always Been Jewish? This week, Liz Rosenberg, the author of The Laws of Gravity blogs for The Postscript on being a Jewish writer, one’s roots, and what can pull those roots… Liz Rosenberg November 13, 2013
Essay Young Jewish Athletes Earlier this week, Ilana Garon wrote about Jewish day school and running. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.My brothers… Ilana Garon November 13, 2013
Essay The Burden of Silence Leonard Rosen’s most recently published book is The Tenth Witness, a prequel to All Cry Chaos, a much-praised award winner in both the literary and… Leonard Rosen November 13, 2013
Essay Lesbian-Feminist Midrash: Nice Jewish Girls Lesbian-feminist poet and scholar Julie R. Enszer blogs this week for The ProsenPeople on the seminal Jewish lesbian voices of the previous generation and the… Julie R. Enszer November 13, 2013
Essay The Day School Beginnings of a Marathon Runner Ilana Garon is a high school English teacher and the author of “Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens?”: Teaching Lessons from the Bronx (Skyhorse, 2013), as… Ilana Garon November 11, 2013
Essay Claiming Myself as a Victim of Terror Earlier this week, David Harris-Gershon wrote about how his memoir, What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife? (Oneworld… David Harris-Gershon November 7, 2013