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    Cover of The Blessing of Sorrow: How to Turn Grief into Healing
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    The Bless­ing of Sor­row: How to Turn Grief into Healing
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    Mod­ern Loss: Can­did Con­ver­sa­tion About Grief. Begin­ners Welcome.
    Gabrielle Birkn­er
    Rebec­ca Soffer
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    White Hot Grief Parade: A Memoir
    Alexan­dra Silber
    Essay

    A Pedi­atric Oncol­o­gist’s Account of a Tibetan Sky Burial

    Elisha Wald­man
    March 22, 2018
    Essay

    I’ll Have the Burg­er, Hold the Expo­si­tion: On Research for Fic­tion Writers

    Allan Appel
    September 21, 2017
    Essay

    My Father’s Letters

    Ron­na Wineberg
    June 23, 2017
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    Life­sav­ing for Beginners
    Anne Edel­stein
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    Nec­es­sary Mourning
    Dahlia Abraham-Klein
    Cover of The Heart of Loneliness: How Jewish Wisdom Can Help You Cope and Find Comfort
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    The Heart of Lone­li­ness: How Jew­ish Wis­dom Can Help You Cope and Find Comfort
    Marc Katz
    Essay

    The Tears in Things

    Ear­li­er this week, Leah Kamin­sky con­sid­ered the role and of ghosts in con­tem­po­rary lit­er­a­ture—includ­ing her own nov­el, The Wait­ing Room. Leah is guest blog­ging for…
    Leah Kamin­sky
    November 9, 2016
    Essay

    Talk­ing to the Dead: The Eter­nal Jew­ish Mother

    Leah Kamin­sky is the author of the nov­el The Wait­ing Room. She will be guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series here on…
    Leah Kamin­sky
    November 7, 2016
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    37 Sec­onds: Dying Revealed Heav­en’s Help – A Moth­er’s Journey
    Stephanie Arnold
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    Fic­tion
    Kiss­ing in America
    Margo Rabb
    Cover of After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition
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    After One-Hun­dred-and-Twen­ty: Reflect­ing on Death, Mourn­ing, and the After­life in the Jew­ish Tradition
    Hillel Halkin
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    Ida, Always
    Caron Levis
    Essay

    The Cathar­sis of Dwelling on Death

    Ear­li­er this week, Piece of Mind author Michelle Adel­man wrote a case for a Jew­ish belief in ghosts. With the novel’s debut, Michelle is guest blog­ging as…
    Michelle Adel­man
    February 25, 2016
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