By Deborah Kolben
Jewish children’s book authors Simms Taback and Russell Hoban died days apart in December. Deborah Kolben says her daughter’s bookshelf won’t be the same.
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By Deborah Kolben
It’s a nightmare out there for Jewish parents looking for day care. Deborah Kolben asks why synagogues or community groups don’t step up to fill the void.
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By Deborah Kolben
Why is the environment a Jewish issue? Sybil Sanchez is the new leader of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life — an Organization that asks American Jews to pledge to consume less, help raise awareness and push for public policies that promote environmentalism — explains.
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By Deborah Kolben
A native New Yorker, Deborah Kolben was living in Berlin when she found out she was pregnant with her first child. In this essay, she discusses playing charades in the obstetrician’s office, being prescribed blood sausage and her complicated feelings about the prospect of giving birth in Germany.Read More
By Deborah Kolben
Days after moving to Berlin from Brooklyn this summer, I fell into a deep funk. It was the kind of can’t-get-out-of-bed depression where at 5 p.m. you realize that you haven’t left the apartment all day — except once, and that was to get a donner kebab, the pervasive Turkish street food and Berlin’s answer to the New York slice. I knew that outside, out in Berlin, there were galleries to see and cafés to idyll in, but I couldn’t bring myself to leave. It all just seemed so gray, vast and empty. I was realizing that Berlin, with all its heavy history, could do this to a person.
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