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October 2024

September 2024

My son is on a list
And then they came for me. What does it say about us when we tell our own to repent or suffer the consequences?
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Searching for breadcrumbs
Once again, I am channelling Hansel and Gretel, trying to find my way to a forgotten story. I hope my predecessors left clues.
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On needlepoints, Jacob's Ladder and Steven Spielberg
I think of all the stories I missed out on because I wasn't paying attention, or like the "gonef" Steven Spielberg, didn't want to pay for it.
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The Comfort of Ghosts
It's not only me -- everybody's haunted. How lucky we are.
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July 2024

The shtetl of our imagination
In an interview with Max Gross, author of "The Lost Shtetl," we discuss the enduring fascination with the shtetl, Jewish fiction post Oct 7 and the…
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What does justice mean?
Jake Paltrow's film "June Zero," about the historic crematorium built only for Eichmann, raises questions on identity, memory and retribution that we…
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My uncle was all memory, my mother all forgetting
They were two sides of the same coin. For years, I held my mom's self-imposed amnesia against her not realizing that my uncle's dedication to memory…
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June 2024

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