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Nonfiction Ketchup Is My Favorite Vegetable: A Family Grows Up With Autism Liane Kupferberg Carter
Excerpt It’s a Practical Thing, Love Excerpted from Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World by Susan Silverman.The quiet of nighttime. The girls are asleep and I can… Susan Silverman March 14, 2016
Nonfiction We’re Almost There: Living with Patience, Perseverance and Purpose Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen
Nonfiction White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In Between Judy Batalion
Essay The Origins of the Undo List Earlier this week, Christopher Noxon shared the beginnings of his journey from “doing Jew” to being Jewish and the profound importance he found in ritualized rites… Christopher Noxon November 27, 2015
Essay Everyone Wants to Be Invited Earlier this week, Christopher Noxon shared his journey from “doing Jew” to being Jewish. He is blogging here all week as part of the Visiting Scribe series on The… Christopher Noxon November 25, 2015
Nonfiction The Pater: One Man’s Meditation on Childlessness and Fatherlessness in Jewish Civilization Elliot Jager
Essay What Is Tzedakah? Earlier this week, Talia Carner wrote about growing up as a a seventh-generation sabra among the Second Generation of Holocaust survivors in Israel, thereby… Talia Carner June 3, 2015
Nonfiction Brave Girls: Raising Young Women with Passion and Purpose to become Powerful leaders Stacey Radin
Nonfiction Will I Ever Be Happy Again: A Jewish Approach to Helping Children Deal With the Loss of a Loved One Chaya L. Milevsky & Avidan Milevsky; Sarah Zauderer, illus.