Judy Bolton-Fasman
By Judy Bolton-Fasman
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Culture Celebrating Sukkot in a pandemic
With appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital and Norwood Hospital, Dr. Bruce Weinstock has been voluntarily advising synagogues and day schools on COVID-19 preparation. This past May, Weinstock participated in a webinar for the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts on coronavirus preparation. The upcoming Sukkot holiday highlights our vulnerability to nature and the elements. Meals are eaten…
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Community Just in time for Yom Kippur, a better way to say ‘I’m sorry’
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced,” said James Baldwin. Clinical psychologist Molly Howes takes Baldwin’s reflection to heart in her excellent and engaging book, “A Good Apology: Four Steps to Make Things Right.” Culled from her decades-long experience as a therapist, Howes presents engaging…
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News In Boston, the pandemic helps open High Holidays to the unaffiliated
In less than two weeks, the High Holidays will arrive in the midst of this unprecedented pandemic. While it may be a challenge to engage worshippers, it’s not impossible. This past month, clergy across Judaism’s denominations shared their thoughts on recreating a High Holiday experience without people in the pews. All were confident about conveying…
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Culture Why My Father Wouldn’t Let Me Read Marjorie Morningstar
When I was a young teenager in the late 1970s, my father forbade me to read “Marjorie Morningstar,” Herman Wouk’s 1955 novel chronicling the eponymous Marjorie’s coming of age in the 1930s. Marjorie, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who worked their way out of the Bronx and to Manhattan’s Upper West Side,…
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Life Exploring Marriage Through Memoir: Q&A With Dani Shapiro
“Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage” is Dani Shapiro’s retrospective, deeply meditative account of her 18-year marriage to her husband, whom she simply calls M. Told in poetic fragments, the book shuffles chronology as easily as a deck of cards. It also deftly intersperses entries from the journal Shapiro kept on her honeymoon with quotes from various…
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Life Debut Jewish Novel Has Appalachian Roots And Sephardic Influence
A poet, translator and fiction writer, Idra Novey honors all those genres in her first novel, “Ways to Disappear.” “This novel,” she told me in a recent conversation, “is a stewing pot in which I threw in poetry and translation in the same book. I put a lid on it and turned up the heat,…
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Life Meeting Meltdowns With Mindfulness
You are reading to your child. Your brain processes the words and your mouth utters them. But you have no idea what you have just read or how long you’ve been in this altered state. Parenting expert and clinical social worker Carla Naumburg not only knows your confusion, but as a fellow parent she feels…
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Life Celebrating 40 Years of Lilith Magazine In Print
For the past 40 years the Jewish feminist magazine Lilith has been in print continuously. That milestone was recently celebrated at Brandeis University, the new home of the magazine’s archives of manuscripts, photographs, letters, drafts, notes, exhibits and more. For the past four decades Lilith has rehabilitated and promoted Lilith, Adam’s first wife, as a…
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