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Carin M. Smilk

Carin M. Smilk is the managing editor of JNS.

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Carin M. SmilkSeptember 11, 2020
Day 35: The end of the wash, rinse, repeat cycle
Wishing all good health, a sense of normalcy, and for many, a peaceful 5781!
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Carin M. SmilkJune 19, 2020
Day 34: Fathers full-circle
They are the chess pieces in our lives; we couldn’t move without them.
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Carin M. SmilkJune 5, 2020
Day 33: Exit, stage yellow …
We’re all different after this three-month, newly masked experience—hopefully, for the better.
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Shavuot 2020
‘Turn It and Turn It, for Everything Is in It’: A Torah commentary for the times
Carin M. SmilkMay 28, 2020
A rabbi on the global coronavirus pandemic, the holiday of Shavuot, the sacred cycle of the Jewish calendar and a core (at least one) truth.
Rabbi Jonathan Kligler of Woodstock Jewish Congregation in Woodstock, N.Y. Credit: Courtesy.
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Carin M. SmilkMay 8, 2020
Day 32: The meaning of motherhood
Take that, Wonder Woman. You may have a magic lasso, but I am a magician.
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Carin M. SmilkMay 1, 2020
Day 31: Like clockwork
It’s funny—and always revealing—when we have moments to peek back into our lives.
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Carin M. SmilkApril 30, 2020
Day 30: Happy Zoom day to you!
My first day on the job, she asked me to write a speech. Just like that.
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Carin M. SmilkApril 29, 2020
Day 29: Ever so grateful
I hope one day that everyone will notice. Like a gust of wind. Or a dose of electricity.
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Carin M. SmilkApril 28, 2020
Day 28: Essentially displaced
No rings, beeps, buzzes, crunching, crackling or distracting sounds of any kind.
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Carin M. SmilkApril 27, 2020
Day 27: Life at a standstill
It’s visual recognition and pain for all that has been lost in such a tiny, embattled country.
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Carin M. SmilkApril 24, 2020
Day 26: Curbside pickup
I know what you’re thinking. How petty in this dire time of crisis.
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Carin M. SmilkApril 23, 2020
Day 25: Weeding through hats and hoodies
It seems that the chapeau doesn’t fall far from the pate.
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Carin M. SmilkApril 22, 2020
Day 24: Want not, waste not
I’m not really the trash person; it’s on the half-and-half list.
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Carin M. SmilkApril 21, 2020
Day 23: Weather or not?
Every night at around midnight, I crack the storm door open and listen. Listen to nothing.
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Carin M. SmilkApril 20, 2020
Day 22: Grasping at the Holocaust
It’s like an addiction. There are so many places to see, so many cities and towns that still reel from that war.
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