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My family immigrated to America from Samarkand, Uzbekistan, when I was 14. Samarkand was my ancestral city since 586 BCE, when Jews were exiled after the destruction of the first Holy Temple in Jerusalem. We came to America to freely...
An ELCA pastor invites us in this season, as we wait for the baby born in a manger, to reflect on the unexpected gifts in our lives.
The author’s fourth book is a loving portrait of a teenage boy at a young offenders’ institution
JARVIS ROCKWELL'S TOY COLLECTION is housed in a suite of offices on the corner of Main and Railroad in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. This is Norman Rockwell country, and Jarvis is Norman’s eldest son. I first saw the collection with the poet Geoffrey Young, who thought I might find some things to borrow for my work. But given the cloyingly nostalgic image of a kinder gentler America Rockwell’s lineage evokes, I assumed I would only find a bunch of tin toys from the ’30s and ’40s. He and I were both wrong. First, you don’t borrow from Rockwell’s collection. I had to stick to...
From the blog of Daniel R. Berkove at The Times of Israel