Janice Eidus
By Janice Eidus
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Life I Don’t Believe in God, But I Still Want a Jewish Community
Amy Goldin’s parents believed that “religion is the opiate of the masses.” As an adult, she didn’t think much about religion until pregnancy led to a sudden and unexpected yearning for her newborn son to have a bris – and, down the road, a bar mitzvah. Together with her wife, a lapsed Catholic who agreed…
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Life How Does a Therapy ‘Junkie’ Say Goodbye to Shrink
“The prognosis is very poor,” she told me that night over the phone. Joan, my therapist at the time, had keeled over while painting in an art class. “If she lives,” Barbara explained to me, as she’d been explaining and would continue to explain over the phone to Joan’s patients all night, “she won’t ever…
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