Jewish
Here comes the “Happy Holidays” hand grenade
As we clear away the Thanksgiving dishes, the holiday season in the U.S. begins in earnest.
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Hope Eternal in a Ritual Bath
Hope always finds a way to keep the human spirit alive.
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Secrets, Paranoia and Babysitting
In my post, “I Could Write a Great Novel If Only I Had a Story to Tell,” I neglected my own favorite kind of plot trigger: secrets.
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Happy 5769!
- Let me take this opportunity to wish all my Red Room fellow writers, Jewish or not, a very happy New Year! Getting close to 6,000 years (5769 actually, according to the Jewish calendar) is a long t
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Listening to the Tune in Dialogue
- For the last year, I've been involved with Radio Salaam Shalom, an internet radio station promoting Jewish-Muslim understanding and dialogue.
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The transformative power of writing a novel
- I used to make myself ill with rage. I didn’t and still don’t agree with the establishment of a Jewish state and I especially object to Israelis claiming to speak in my name.
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People of the Book
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The Jewish People are widely known as the People of the Book and not without reason—books are implicit to the Jewish People from the seminal beginning 4000 years ago with the
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Meth, Jews And Push-Up Bras, It's The New Saudi Arabia
- RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, June 29...They're speeding, kvetching and sporting lacy teddies under their abayas. Welcome to the new Saudi Arabia.
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- RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, June 29...They're speeding, kvetching and sporting lacy teddies under their abayas. Welcome to the new Saudi Arabia.
The Enchantress of Newtown
For what else but enchantment is present when a previously designated "runner-up" becomes the winner?
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Rejection
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I am too sensitive about rejection; where other writers have a proud stack of rejections I have none since I don’t bother to send my stuff out.
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