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Carin M. Smilk

Carin M. Smilk

Carin M. Smilk is managing editor of the U.S. bureau at JNS, with extensive experience in writing, content editing, copy editing and newsroom management. She has worked in newspaper and communications offices in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore; freelanced for more than 25 years; and contributed to magazines and books. She has won more than three dozen individual and team journalism awards on the U.S. state and national levels.

I noticed a sign on the door that said “drive-through service only.”
I was making dinner (no, reheating dinner), when I accidentally grasped a baking sheet I didn’t realize was already hot.
As the saying goes, it’s not the Jews who have kept Shabbat. It’s Shabbat that has kept the Jews.
Does any remember how to deconstruct poetry?
Why do I feel like a graduate student all over again?
My first home-schooling lesson went well—at least, after my two elementary-schoolers insisted I was wrong, completely wrong.
Stressors also cause positivity. People do rise to the occasion; we’re all in the same boat. That salves my Jewish soul.
Dini Freundlich, who put herself in a self-imposed quarantine when arriving in New York, will serve as keynote speaker at the annual women emissaries’ conference, where she will talk about China, the coronavirus, anti-Semitism and fellow Jews.