How good is good enough?
Ellie Herman
May 29, 2015
Embarrassing confession: I am addicted to inspirational teacher movies.
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jewish
Writing can diagnose Parkinson’s
Jewish Journal
October 30, 2013
A new Israeli study comparing the handwriting of healthy people to those with Parkinson’s disease holds out the promise of providing a simple diagnostic tool at the earliest stages of the progressive disorder caused by the death of nerve cells in the brain’s muscle-movement control areas.
On Jewish writing
Jewish Journal
May 3, 2013
I’m noticing a trend among my coreligionists-who-write: arguing against being “labeled” as Jewish writers — especially when they are simultaneously speaking in Jewish-sponsored lecture/reading series, blogging for the Jewish Book Council, and/or benefiting from awards given specifically for works deemed to have Jewish significance. These writers protest too much as they engage in a variation of that proverbial activity: biting a hand that feeds them.
Books: Shmegegis of old, shmegegis of gold
Hank Rosenfeld
December 14, 2006
Who doesn\’t love old Jewish comedians? Those mamzers of mirth and halutzim of humor who paved the road from the Catskills to Vegas as first-generation entertainers.
Proposal Advocates Shoah Forgiveness
Joseph Hanania
January 26, 2006
Oliner\’s personal turnabout resulted in studies, which still continue, at his Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute at Humboldt. From there, Oliner and his wife, Pearl, have interviewed more than 500 rescuers who risked everything to save others, while seeking no personal reward.
Why a Novel?
Alan Zweibel
November 24, 2005
Writing is said to be a lonely business, solitary in the task to fill up so many empty pages. And before I decided to try my hand at writing my autobiographical novel, \”The Other Shulman,\” I\’ll confess I had fears about such an undertaking.
Taking Note of 2004
Bill Boyarsky
January 6, 2005
Last week, I pulled out a big, unsorted folder from my desk filled with material I had used for my Jewish Journal columns.
A Skittish Homage to Cynthia Ozick
Daniel Asa Rose
October 21, 2004
Confession: It\’s not Virginia Woolf I\’m afraid of — it\’s Cynthia Ozick. Even though she blurbed my last book (disclosure, disclosure) and once recommended me for a fellowship I didn\’t get (thanks for the memories, Mr. Guggenheim), still I\’m afraid of her. She reminds me of Virginia Woolf, is why.
Works of Renewal and Celebration
Sandee Brawarsky
September 16, 2004
At present, the tradition or writing hanhagot continues. At the back are two neo-Chasidic hanhagot, by Hillel Zeitlin, a writer and martyr of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Arthur Green, a contemporary scholar and theologian, who is the author\’s mentor.
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