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Ross Kenneth Urken

Ross Kenneth Urken has published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The Paris Review. He lives in Manhattan.

High Holidays With Ziggy Marley
“We grew up with the Old Testament, the Tanakh, and I do the apple and honey … I go to temple in L.A.”
byRoss Kenneth Urken
Flying Under the Jewish Radar, in Pastel Colors
When the Hasidim at sidewalk mitzvah tanks ask passersby if they’re Jewish, my madras pants and boat shoes render me invisible
byRoss Kenneth Urken
What My Nanny Left Me
How did a Jewish boy from New Jersey end up speaking with a Jamaican accent? It’s an enduring inheritance from a woman who raised me.
byRoss Kenneth Urken

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