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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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