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loneliness
Opening the Gates
Jewish Journal
October 2, 2008
Next time you see someone like me at your synagogue or at your event, remember that they probably feel really lonely and you could be the person to make their day by smiling at them and letting them know that they exist.
Elegy for a Dream
Gina Nahai
September 9, 2007
The Shah of Iran symbolized, with his youth and his seemingly limitless future, the power and grandeur that, we believed, would one day be his — he symbolized for us a life of possibilities, such as we hadn\’t known for centuries.
The Painful Holidays
Michele Herenstein
October 6, 2005
A feeling of trepidation takes hold of my heart. The Jewish holidays are upon us again, and as a 30-something single in a family of all married siblings, I\’m feeling anxiety and pain.
Comedy Is Not Pretty
Naomi Pfefferman
November 9, 2000
Mark Schiff\’s friends looked at him funny after reading an early version of his play, \”The Comic.\” \”It ends with a murder-suicide,\” the comedian concedes. \”But it\’s funny.\”
Too Much Too Soon
Teresa Strasser
September 28, 2000
Once you spill your guts, they\’re a little hard to mop up.
Strangers No More
Marlene Adler Marks
September 24, 1998
Each Yom Kippur, a vestigial loneliness creeps over me. I achingly feel that my parents and family are back East; that my cousins live in Japan; that some of my dearest are dead. On this day, dispersion and alienation seeps in, and I cling to my community like fog to the shore. And this is the way it should be.
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