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 Lazy days on our Hungarian lake

The enjoyment we experienced there was in inverse proportion to its physical condition

We’re not the only ones in suspense after the election that isn’t over and may not be over until what Americans call “the weekend” at the earliest Photos: Naftoli Goldgrab, Kuvien Images W e wish we could have declared a winner in the presidential sweepstakes by press time, as we have in the previous two

We’re not the only ones in suspense after the election that isn’t over and may not be over until what Americans call “the weekend” at the earliest Photos: Naftoli Goldgrab, Kuvien Images W e wish we could have declared a winner in the presidential sweepstakes by press time, as we have in the previous two

"To see how 'I' and 'me' are just ways to say ‘us' and 'we'; to expand yourself to include others"

"It was all part of being there, showing the unaffiliated that bnei Torah can be fun, normal, and serious about Yiddishkeit at the same time"

Against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush, life on a Louisiana plantation, and Cherokee clan rivalries, the characters struggle with their own family dramas and dilemmas

M. Kenan shows her versatility as an author, crossing cultural worlds with integrity while remaining in the modern age