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    death & mourning

    Essay

    Do (Jew­ish) Ghosts Exist?

    Michelle Adel­man​’s debut nov­el Piece of Mind is told from the per­spec­tive of a young woman with a brain injury forced to con­tend with the dif­fi­cul­ties of…
    Michelle Adel­man
    February 22, 2016
    Essay

    A Bite of the Apple

    Ear­li­er this week, Bruce J. Hill­man shared the sto­ry behind writ­ing The Man Who Stalked Ein­stein and why Jew­ish doc­tors make great writ­ers. He has been blog­ging here…
    Bruce J. Hillman
    January 1, 2016
    Essay

    In Praise of Imag­i­nary Things

    The fol­low­ing is a redact­ed ver­sion of My Father’s Gui­tar and Oth­er Imag­i­nary Things: True Sto­ries author Joseph Ski­bell​’s orig­i­nal essay for Jew­ish Book…
    Joseph Ski­bell
    October 26, 2015
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    Eth­i­cal Wills and How to Pre­pare Them
    Jack Reimer and Nathaniel Stampfer
    Essay

    Wash­ing the Dead: The Won­der of Ritual

    Michelle Braf­man​’s debut nov­el Wash­ing the Dead is being pub­lished this week by Prospect Park Books. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s…
    Michelle Braf­man
    April 27, 2015
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    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.
    Essay

    Best Friends

    Lesléa New­man is the author of 60 books includ­ing A Let­ter to Har­vey Milk, Nobody’s Moth­er, Hachiko Waits, Write from the Heart, The Boy Who Cried Fab­u­lous, The Best…
    Lesléa New­man
    January 12, 2015
    Essay

    The Lit­tle Shul

    Ear­li­er this week, Ron­na Wineberg wrote about Chanukah and shared a delet­ed scene from her first nov­el, On Bit­ter­sweet Place. She will be blog­ging here all week for…
    Ron­na Wineberg
    December 23, 2014
    Essay

    The Rea­son Jews Shouldn’t Cel­e­brate Hal­loween Is Exact­ly Why We Should

    Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinIt’s a ques­tion every Jew­ish Amer­i­can par­ent faces at the wan­ing of Octo­ber: Will you allow your chil­dren to trick-or-treat?The…
    Nat Bern­stein
    October 31, 2014
    Essay

    Yahrzeit

    Ear­li­er this week, Jes­si­ca Lamb-Shapiro wrote about writ­ing a book on self-help. The book, Promise Land: My Jour­ney through Amer­i­ca’s Self-Help Cul­ture, is now…
    Jes­si­ca Lamb-Shapiro
    August 21, 2014
    Essay

    What’s Your Book About?

    Jes­si­ca Lamb-Shapiro has writ­ten for the New York Times Mag­a­zine, Time, and The Believ­er. Her book, Promise Land: My Jour­ney through Amer­i­ca’s Self-Help Cul­ture, is now…
    Jes­si­ca Lamb-Shapiro
    August 19, 2014
    Essay

    The Moth­ers’ Kaddish

    Post­ed by Nat BernsteinWe are all still reel­ing from the past weeks of ter­ror and grief over the mur­ders of Naf­tali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrah, three Jew­ish young…
    Nat Bern­stein
    July 11, 2014
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    Con­so­la­tion: The Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney Beyond Grief
    Maurice Lamm
    Essay

    The One Thing You Should Do the Day Before You Die

    Ear­li­er this week, NY Times best-sell­ing author Sara David­son wrote about talk­ing to your par­ents about death and about she came to write her mem­oir The Decem­ber Project…
    Sara David­son
    March 28, 2014
    Essay

    How to Have ​“The Talk”

    Ear­li­er this week, NY Times best-sell­ing author Sara David­son wrote about she came to write her mem­oir The Decem­ber Project (Harper­One), which is based…
    Sara David­son
    March 26, 2014
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    Kad­dish: Wom­en’s Voices
    Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas
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