Author, educator & storyteller

A SELECTION OF  PUBLISHED ESSAYS 

Some humorous, some serious, all me

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• "October 8, 2010" in PAST TEN, October 8, 2020. 

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• "As a New Convert, I Thought It Was Okay to..." in THE FORWARD, October 6, 2020.

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• "Saying Goodbye to Seafood" in TABLET MAGAZINE, June 16 2020.

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• "Nirvana: How the Lockdown Released an Easily Distracted Writer" in BREVITY, April 22 2020.

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• "Authentic gravlaks from a Viking Jewess" in THE CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS, January 28 2020.

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• "On Reading Outside Our Genre" in BREVITY, February 11 2019.

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• "Trondheim Instead of Oslo" in THE WASHINGTON POST, September 26 2019. ​

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• "Latchkey Kid" in POYDRAS REVIEW, June 11 2018. 

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• "Post-Holiday Glee: My First Purim in Maine" on the LILITH BLOG, March 2 2018.

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• "Ideaphoria Redux. Or, Writer's Shpilkes" in BREVITY, February 23 2018. 

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• "My Snowy, Cold and Uplifting Night at a Mikvah in Oslo" in JEWESS, February 19 2018.

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• "A Writing Life, Despite" in BREVITY, January 16 2017. 

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• "A Disturbing but Profound Interaction With the Other" in HEVRIA, February 20 2017. 

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• "Why We Have to Learn About Sephardic Holocaust Stories" on the LILITH BLOG, March 7, 2017

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• "The Extraordinary Story of Gisèle Braka, A Sephardic Jew in the Holocaust" on the LILITH BLOG, March 20, 2017.

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• "Silent Witness: A Night at the Morgue" in THE MANIFEST-STATION, April 26 2017.

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• "The Making of the Viking Jewess" in LILITH, Winter 2015-2016. 

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• "I Love Your Family, But I Dread Your Joyous Holiday Letters" in THE WASHINGTON POST, November 30 2016. 

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• "Learning to be Frugal" in THE HUFFINGTON POST, June 23 2016.

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• "My Friend died of Cancer. Six Months Later I Met Her Widower's Girlfriend" in THE WASHINGTON POST, July 6 2015.

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• "My Cathartic Writing Experience" in LITERARY MAMA, August 31 2015. 

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• "Why I resent the Term 'Alimony'" in THE HUFFINGTON POST, August 6 2015. 

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