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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
Nonfiction Where’s My Miracle? Exploring Jewish Traditions For Dealing with Tragedy Morey Schwartz
Nonfiction Parentless Parents: How the Loss of Our Mothers and Fathers Impacts the Way We Raise Our Children Allison Gilbert
Nonfiction May God Remember — Yizkor: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism (Prayers of Awe) Lawrence A. Hoffman
Essay Mourning the Loss of a Non-Jewish Parent Gayle Redlingshafer Berman is co-author, with her husband Harold, of Doublelife: One Family,Two Faiths and a Journey of Hope, the first true-life account of “an… Gayle Redlingshafer Berman July 16, 2013
Essay Joanna Hershon and the Memorial Joanna Hershon’s most recent novel, A Dual Inheritance, was published earlier this month by Ballantine Books. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Joanna Hershon May 20, 2013
Nonfiction Before and After Loss: A Neurologist’s Perspective on Loss, Grief and Our Brain Lisa Shulman
Children’s Saying Goodbye: A Handbook for Teens Dealing with Loss and Mourning Neal C. Goldberg; Miriam Lieberman
Visual Arts The Illuminated Kaddish: Interpretations of the Mourner’s Prayer Hyla Shifra Bolsta
