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Carin M. Smilk

Carin M. Smilk is the managing editor of JNS.

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Film Review
Always the optimist: Netflix film on Shimon Peres spotlights political, emotional resilience
Carin M. SmilkJuly 12, 2022
“People said that I’m a dreamer,” said the Israeli statesman, who lived to 93. “It’s true. But ask me this: What’s wrong? Who said people who don’t dream are right?”
Award-winning documentary film director and writer Richard Trank in Eastern Europe with his crew on the set of “Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres” by Moriah Films, a division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, to be released on Netflix on July 13, 2022. Credit: Moriah Films.
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Passover 2022
The art of making art, using Israel as a model
Carin M. SmilkApril 5, 2022
“I have learned that even if something, including me, is broken, it can be repaired, and although it may have scars, it can still be useful and beautiful—‘perfectly imperfect,’ ” says Chaya Esther Ort of Kiyor Studio in Jerusalem.
Kiyor Studio in Nachlaot steps away from the bustling Machane Yehuda outdoor market. Photo by Pascale Harris.
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Stay-at-Home Front
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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Stay-at-Home Front
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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