Judy Bolton-Fasman
A glimpse into Rabbi Angela Buchdahl’s remarkable journey — “from feeling like an outsider to becoming one of the most admired religious leaders in the world.”
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl’s Memoir Captures Hearts and Souls
Tag: memoir
Sounding Like Yourself: A Lilith Memoir Writing Workshop
Sarah M. Seltzer
One of the biggest challenges you likely face as a writer is trying to develop (and hear, and believe in) your own voice. You’ll discover your own indelible voice—one that doesn’t sound like anyone else—in a session facilitated by Lilith writer, facilitator, and children’s book author Marcella White Campbell.
Sounding Like Yourself: A Lilith Memoir Writing Workshop
Sarah M. Seltzer
When you read your favorite author, a unique voice leaps off the page and burrows into your head. But one of the biggest challenges you likely face as a writer… Read more »
Delving into a Family Tragedy
Eleanor J. Bader
Over time, Ross-Dolen learned the cause of her mother’s sadness: A fiery plane crash between two commercial jets in December 1960 killed her mom’s parents.
Finding Myself in a Memoir About Someone Else
Shayna Goodman
Trauma does not exist in a vacuum — it’s always layered.
A Kaddish in Havana
Hasia Diner
I think of her not just as the source of my wallets and maracas, but as a hero of the revolution, someone who stayed when so many of her peers left.
Davon Loeb: Writing In-Between (and Outside) the Lines
Martha Anne Toll
“How could I pick just one when I was, ethnically, as Black as I was Jewish-white?”
An Octogenarian’s Memoir of Wild Midlife Reinvention
Yona Zeldis McDonough
“Naked at the Helm” takes on the second half of life.
A Writer’s Final Farewell to a Spouse
Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
I was hesitant to pick up In Love as a newlywed. I am superstitious enough to worry about inviting misfortune by way of acknowledging it. But when I stood under the chuppah last November and married my husband, I remember thinking about death.
A Mom, Not a Superhero: Debi Lewis On “Kitchen Medicine”
Mikhal Weiner
Parents break sometimes, and we put ourselves back together. But if we never see any stories of other people doing it, it makes us feel like monsters.