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Gila Silverman is a cultural anthropologist and writer, affiliated with the University of Arizona and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
Gila Silverman is a cultural anthropologist and writer, affiliated with the University of Arizona and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
Recently, I participated in a survey of Young Judaea alumni. It has been 35 years since I went to my first Young Judaea meeting, and I can say with certainty that the experiences that followed transformed my life. My mother liked to say that she sought out a Young Judaea club because she had a…
The headline on a recent Forward interview with Sheryl Sandberg asks if Sandberg can help Americans learn to grieve. Sandberg has certainly done all of us a great service by opening up a conversation about the way American do –- and don’t –- deal with death, dying and grief. In the essay that follows this…
