By WDK | Published: March 25, 2012
My piece on celebrating World Down Syndrome Day in the Jewish Daily Forward Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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By WDK | Published: January 19, 2012
‘Do you really have seven children?’ ‘How do you remember their names?” ‘My Favorite Child‘ – in the Jerusalem Post Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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By WDK | Published: January 13, 2012
‘Please remove me from your list.’ After writing my last piece in the Jewish Daily Forward about women in the ultra-orthodox community, I received a lot of emails like that. Friends in the community in which I live wrote of their disappointment: some suggesting that I had turned a few stories into generalizations, others [...]
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By WDK | Published: January 12, 2012
Simon Rocker reviews Open Minded Torah in the Jewish Chronicle: ’Kolbrener will make an agreeable literary companion over a weekend, an elegant exponent of 21st-century Torah, rooted in traditional Jewish commitment while open to wider civilisation.’ Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the [...]
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By WDK | Published: January 12, 2012
‘When Women Can’t Even Say Thank You’ – my piece in the Jewish Daily Forward Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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By WDK | Published: January 1, 2012
I am now looking at the Memorial Book, published in Tel Aviv in 1967, for the community of Govorovo in Poland. My mother’s grandparents and most of their family were murdered by the Nazis. I am now looking at pictures of my great grandfather, my namesake, Velvel Blumstein, and my great-grandmother, Feiga Blumstein, and, across [...]
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By WDK | Published: December 28, 2011
My name badge at Limmud says ‘William’ in big block lettters, my last name smaller below. There is no title, no university affiliation. In this way, the design of the name tag reflects Limmud principles – inclusive and without hierarchies. Someone mentioned to me privately that he had come here with the sole purpose [...]
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By WDK | Published: December 18, 2011
My recent Jerusalem talk on John Milton’s Paradise Lost – on beginnings and endings and what happens in between. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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By WDK | Published: December 15, 2011
On authenticity, peace and living with imperfection – Newt’s Invented States in the Washington Post ‘On Faith’ Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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By WDK | Published: December 13, 2011
Two days ago, on December 11, Judge Joseph Shapira of the Jerusalem District Court ruled, after a four-year legal drama, that Naomi Ragen in her novel Sotah knowingly copied from the work of the author Sarah Shapiro, Growing with My Children. Though not publicized, I was the literary expert for Sarah Shapiro, the plaintiff, and I provided [...]
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