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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
Essay Vicki Oransky Wittenstein on Researching For the Good of Mankind To celebrate the publication of her teen nonfiction book, For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation (Lerner Publishing… Vicki Oransky Wittenstein November 5, 2013
Essay A Meal from The Tin Horse, Minus the Tsuris This week, Janice Steinberg, the author of The Tin Horse blogs for The Postscript on what to cook for a Tin Horse-themed meal. The Postscript series is… Janice Steinberg November 5, 2013
Essay How My Memoir Convinced the NY Post to Advocate for Israel’s Destruction David Harris-Gershon is GrandSLAM storytelling winner for The Moth as well as a popular blogger on Palestinian-Israeli issues for Tikkun magazine,… David Harris-Gershon November 5, 2013