Jamie Beth Cohen
By Jamie Beth Cohen
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Life I Don’t Hate Christmas — But People Think I Do
I have a reputation. When I walk into certain rooms, people roll their eyes. At least they used to. For several years, I worked at a secular, non-profit educational institution, but people there didn’t always behave in a completely secular way. At the “holiday” party, the community sang “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” and a…
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Life When My Daughter’s Teacher Erased Her Judaism For A Class Project
The sheet was purple. The title, written in the typeface Comic Sans, was “Ethnic & Family Heritage Social Studies Unit.” The sheet explained that the students would be exploring their “family’s ethnic heritage and the cultural diversity found in our world.” It went on to ask our daughter to list the countries her ancestors were…
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