Elissa Wald
By Elissa Wald
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Life Nathan Englander Opens Up About His Orthodox Upbringing
Throughout Nathan Englander’s new novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, I felt lit with recognition. Yes, it’s a spy story, focusing on the implosion of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, spanning the years between the Second Intifada and the 2014 Gaza War, and set variously in the Middle East, Paris, Berlin and Capri. In other…
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Life How I Talk To My Kids About White Supremacists
Judith was a survivor of Auschwitz. When my brother and I were very young, she took care of us while our parents were at work. She told me her story over and over, long before I could fully comprehend it, and I absorbed it much as I would any other cruel and outlandish fairy tale….
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