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Ilana Kurshan

Ilana Kurshan is the author of If All the Seas Were Ink.

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    Spending Rosh Hashanah With a Very Hungry Caterpillar

    What a children’s book can teach us about prayer and renewal

    byIlana Kurshan
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    Lamentation for a Swimming Pool

    This Tisha B’Av, I’ll be mourning for a different site of spiritual importance in Jerusalem

    byIlana Kurshan
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    The Talmud, Personified

    In his new ‘biography,’ professor Barry Scott Wimpfheimer argues that the Talmud is more important now than it has ever been

    byIlana Kurshan
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    The Language of Our Love

    Measuring a relationship in poems and tractates of Talmud

    byIlana Kurshan
  • Purim in Jerusalem.
    Purim in Jerusalem.
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    Be Happy

    We’re commanded to be happy on Purim, and it turns out the acts required for proper observance—from donning costumes to celebrating with others—provide useful tricks for brightening moods year round

    byIlana Kurshan
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