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Bread and Circus 

Compassion fatigue leads to disinterest and apathy

Why American Jews Should Stop Observing Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day

An interesting thing happened two weeks ago.When President Trump issued his executive order banning refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries, ...

We Are a Nation of Immigrants

Last night I participated in my town of Westborough’s Interfaith Thanksgiving. Our program was entitled ‘Welcoming the Stranger’, recalling that ...

A Jewish-Russian Writer as New Englander

Maxim D. Shrayer: Papa, let’s continue with our topic. What happens after a Jewish writer emigrates from the USSR to the ...

Almost Jewish

So why would a nice Jewish girl not write nice Jewish fiction? My last book,  Stations West , was about ...

Wandering Mother, Wondering Daughter: Part 2

My mother wasn’t the only Jew in our small town in India. There was Aunty Ruby and her family before they ...

Funny, You Don’t Book Jewish

Lois Leveen’s newest novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, is now available. There’s a novel I first read years ago ...

From Grandfather to Father to Son

Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, comes out this week.The story goes that, in 1923, when my father, ...

Rising to the Top

Pnina Jacobson and Judy Kempler are the authors of One Egg Is A Fortune. Food has always been central to ...

Acknowledging the Tenement Museum

These days, when people write a book, they invariably have an acknowledgments page, where they thank a few people or–like ...