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3 weeks ago | 
tcjewfolk.com | Lonny Goldsmith |Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam,My partner and I are hosting my in-laws for the first days of Passover. I come from a conservative background, and he comes from a Modern Orthodox background. Pesach is already a bit of a fraught time for us since we have to renegotiate our personal kashrut standards and come to a consensus on what we are comfortable with in our home.
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4 weeks ago | 
tcjewfolk.com | Lonny Goldsmith |Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam,I am preparing for my daughter’s bat mitzvah in a few months and starting to get our guest list ready. Right now we’re stuck on whether to invite the members of our extended families with whom we have strong political disagreements.
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1 month ago | 
tcjewfolk.com | Lonny Goldsmith |Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam,My synagogue is a place where people tend to give mishloach manot very generously on Purim. However, I am a single person living alone who has a lot of dietary restrictions. How can I politely say “no thank you” to someone trying to give me treats that will just go to waste?
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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Jonathan Hunt |Monique Harris |Miriam Steinberg-Egeth |Betty Carter
Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike by Amy CherrixIntermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 336 pp. 9/24 9780063069541 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063069565 $9.99Epidemiologists are scientists who study the causes, patterns, and control of diseases in groups of people. Positioning epidemiologists as forensic detectives, Cherrix examines six case studies that convey the scope and importance of their work.
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1 month ago | 
tcjewfolk.com | Lonny Goldsmith |Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, I travel to different locations for my job. A long time ago, my then-supervisor told me to send a text informing her whenever I leave a site for the day. I’ve kept up this practice under my current supervisor. She always replies, “Thanks. Drive safe.”I recently became aware, to my surprise, that the other two people she supervises, both newer than me, don’t ever send her these texts.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
tcjewfolk.com | Lonny Goldsmith |Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, My tween is starting to stink! But she still thinks that only occasionally showering is sufficient, and she’s incredibly resistant to my suggestions that she needs to bathe more frequently. How can I get her to an age-appropriate level of hygiene without embarrassing her?
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
tcjewfolk.com | Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam,For our honeymoon three years ago, my wife and I toured several wineries. We brought home bottles from each as souvenirs with the idea that we would be able to drink them throughout our first years of marriage. Well, we’re down to our last couple of bottles and my wife is now refusing to drink any more of them.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
cincyjewfolk.com | Lonny Goldsmith |Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, During my daughter’s weekly gymnastics class, many of the parents sit around and chat. It’s usually just about kids and school, but I’ve recently noticed two moms who seem to talk about books with each other a lot. I’m a big reader but don’t consider myself good at small talk. I’d like to enter their conversation but instead end up eavesdropping from afar.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
tcjewfolk.com | Lonny Goldsmith |Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, During my daughter’s weekly gymnastics class, many of the parents sit around and chat. It’s usually just about kids and school, but I’ve recently noticed two moms who seem to talk about books with each other a lot. I’m a big reader but don’t consider myself good at small talk. I’d like to enter their conversation but instead end up eavesdropping from afar.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
hbook.com | Sarah Ellis |Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres |Jerry Dear |Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
In this fable/fantasy, Almond (Brand New Boy, rev. 5/22) revisits his signature theme of what it means to be human. Silvester, an elderly... Puppet by David Almond; illus. by Lizzy StewartIntermediate Candlewick 240 pp. 9/24 9781536239171 $18.99e-book ed. 9781536239966 $18.99In this fable/fantasy, Almond (Brand New Boy, rev. 5/22) revisits his signature theme of what it means to be human.
