HeyJaredWriting Family Histories
my writing to recover lost family history, with prompts so you can, too.
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Shana Tova (opens the original)
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Friends,Tomorrow is Erev Rosh Hashanah and the 25th anniversary of 9/11. It’s minhag, at least in my community, not to carry any negative thoughts during the holiday. Many of us are going to fail at that, unless “I really hope nobody shoots up a synagogue” can be framed as a positive thought. We know our enemies are as fond of marking our important dates as we are: the Yom Kippur War, the Hamas attack on Simchas Torah, the Bondi Beach Hannukah Massacre, and on and on. How can we hope for a sweet
[From the Archives] Recipes from my Research (opens the original)
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Thank you all for bearing with my break from writing here. I promise I intend to return, but it’s going to take me a bit to be ready to start talking about family histories again, now that the make-up of my own family is so dramatically altered. But we all need nourishment, even when our bodies don’t really want it, as mine right now frequently does not. So here are some of my favorite—and least favorite—recipes from the research phase of my book. Enjoy, or avoid at all costs, depending on which
Never Say You Have Walked the Final Road (opens the original)
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This has turned out to be a very hard summer. On a global level, it often feels like the worst people have enough power to drive utter chaos and we can’t do much but look on in dismay. On a national level, every day there are reports of things I would have said cannot happen here. And on a personal level, I’ve unexpectedly discovered my marriage is ending. Dominik returned to Austria to visit family in early June, and about a month ago told me he won’t be coming home. If we’re Facebook friends,
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