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Summer and Memorial Day and Summer
Did I forget to post this week? Yes, I did. Would I have remembered if Esther didn’t call to remind me. I’m not sure. Probably not. Permit me to offer…
May 30
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Jessica de Koninck
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O, My America!
What a Sad, Sad Land
May 19
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Lawrence Bush
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My Buried Boat
My Buried Boat From time to time, wrecked ships surface on Cape Cod’s Nauset Beach. They work their way up, a single plank pickled by the sea or the…
May 16
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Andrea Clardy
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Mother's Day
Mother’s Day is so complicated for so many of us. A long time ago a friend of mine, in her twenties, lost her husband very suddenly. Every day for a…
May 13
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Esther Cohen
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A Paean to Noticing
There are different kinds of noticing. My favorite is worth sharing, I hope, because it is useful and smart and also really cool. Aid workers were sent…
May 9
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Wendy Saul
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Not Necessarily the News
Sometime during the pandemic I stopped watching “news” on television. Might have been earlier than that, maybe closer to the 2016 election. I don’t…
May 6
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Jessica de Koninck
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April 2023
Meanwhile, in the Confederacy . . .
Every other month or so, Susan and I make a two-day drive to South Carolina, with our giant dog Elsie in the back seat, to visit our daughter, who has…
Apr 28
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Lawrence Bush
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BOMBING
In 1980, I was working for a small publishing house called The Pilgrim Press. My task was to acquire and edit social justice books. Very quickly I took…
Apr 22
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Esther Cohen
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The Doctoring Profession and How It’s Changed
By: David Koulack Thanks for reading Alte! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. The other day I got a message from the GP that…
Apr 17
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The 100-Word Haggadah
I have a group of friends who have been coming together for Passover for 46 years. We all began in the same neighborhood in Brooklyn, and now we move…
Apr 7
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Lawrence Bush
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Martha Schlamme
by Leonard Lehrman
Apr 7
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Passover, Easter, Spring
For years my photographer friend Matthew Septimus and I did a project for the NPR show On BEING for Jewish holidays, and for Passover, Easter, and…
Apr 1
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Esther Cohen
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