- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1 Prepping Rosh Hashanah: Self-Flagellation in Summer 21 -- 2 Post-Rosh Hashanah: Tossing Flaws and Breadcrumbs 33 -- 3 Fast of Gedaliah: Lessons of a Slain Governor 43 -- 4 Truth about Yom Kippur: Death and More Death 49 -- 5 Yom Kippur Letdown: Maybe Next Year 59 -- 6 Sukkot in LA: Serious Sukkah Envy 75 -- 7 Hoshanah Rabbah & Shemini Atzeret: Left Out, Then Lingering 87 -- 8 Simchat Torah: The Mosh Pit 95 -- 9 Hanukkah Reconsidered: A Split in the Jewish Soul 105 -- 10 Hanukkah at the Bedside and the White House: Unexpected Light 117 -- 11 Tenth of Tevet: Starting the Secular Year Hungry 125 -- 12 Slouching toward Shabbat: The Most Important Holiday of All 135 -- 13 Tu B'Shvat: Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut 145 -- 14 Tzom Esther & Purim: Preparing to Fast and Spiel 159 -- 15 Purim Report: Mirth and Melancholy 169 -- 16 Passover: Scallions and Rare Silences 177 -- 17 Feminist Passover: A (Third) Seder of Her Own 197 -- 18 Yom HaShoah: "We Did More Than Survive" 207 -- 19 Yom HaZikaron & Yom Ha'atzmaut: For the Fallen and the Free-Israel's Memorial & Independence Days 219 -- 20 Lag B'Omer: R-E-S-P-E-C-T 229 -- 21 Activist Shabbat: Friday Night with the Kids 241 -- 22 Sleepless on Shavuot: Let My People Learn 251 -- 23 17th of Tammuz: Another Fast, Seriously? 263 -- 24 Tisha B'Av: Mourning History, Headlines, and Hatred 269 -- 25 My Shabbat Landing: Comforting Consistency 279.