Abigail Pogrebin

My Jewish Year


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       More Praise For The Books Of Abigail Pogrebin

       Stars of David

      “Consistently engaging . . . Pogrebin says this book grew out of her efforts to clarify her own Jewish identity. But you don’t need to be on such a quest to enjoy the wide range of experiences and feelings recorded here.”

       —Publishers Weekly

      “Pogrebin, a former producer for Charlie Rose and 60 Minutes, had the tools to push her interviewees beyond their comfort zone.”

       —Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles

      “...a wide and interesting variety of stories about faith and the lack thereof, family memory, ritual, continuity, and the choices they have made.”

       —The Jewish Week

       One and the Same

      “An enchanting, fascinating book.”

       —Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes

      “Spot on. An honest explanation of how multiples feel about the relationship into which they were born.”

       —Newsweek

      “One and the Same is a touching, funny, smart book, written with considerable flair. Though it contains medical, social, political, and historical perspectives, it is at its core a book about love and intimacy.”

      —Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree

      “An immensely satisfying, enlightening read.”

       —BookPage

      “This book about what it means to be a duplicate is smart and revealing and wise—and, well, singular.”

       —The Daily Beast

      Bedford, New York

      Copyright © 2017 by Abigail Pogrebin

      All rights reserved.

      Published in the United States by Fig Tree Books LLC, Bedford, New York

       www.FigTreeBooks.net

      Jacket design by Jenny Carrow

      Interior design by Neuwirth & Associates, Inc.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available Upon Request

      ISBN number 978-1-941493-20-5

      Distributed by Publishers Group West

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      CONTENTS

       7 | Hoshanah Rabbah & Shemini Atzeret: Left Out, Then Lingering

       8 | Simchat Torah: The Mosh Pit

       9 | Hanukkah Reconsidered: A Split in the Jewish Soul

      10 | Hanukkah at the Bedside and the White House: Unexpected Light

      11 | The Tenth of Tevet: Starting the Secular Year Hungry

      12 | Slouching toward Shabbat: The Most Important Holiday of All

      13 | Tu B’Shvat: Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut

      14 | Tzom Esther & Purim: Preparing to Fast and Spiel

      15 | The Purim Report: Mirth and Melancholy

      16 | Passover: Scallions and Rare Silences

      17 | The Feminist Passover: A (Third) Seder of Her Own

      18 | Yom HaShoah: “We Did More Than Survive

      19 | Yom HaZikaron & Yom Ha’atzmaut: For the Fallen and the Free—Israel’s Memorial & Independence Days

      20 | Lag B’Omer: R-E-S-P-E-C-T

      21 | Activist Shabbat: Friday Night with the Kids

      22 | Sleepless on Shavuot: Let My People Learn

      23 | 17th of Tammuz: Another Fast, Seriously?

      24 | Tisha B’Av: Mourning History, Headlines, and Hatred

      25 | My Shabbat Landing: Comforting Consistency

       Epilogue: Where Did I End Up?

       Acknowledgments

       APPENDIX 1: A Jewish Year in Bullet Points

       APPENDIX 2: Interviews

       APPENDIX 3: Bibliography

       APPENDIX 4: Glossary

       APPENDIX 5: Web Links for the Basics

       About the Author

       FOREWORD

      A. J. JACOBS

      ABBY POGREBIN SUBTITLES her book 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew.

      Which is an excellent way to describe it.

      But let me break her year down a little further for you.

      We’re talking a year filled with:

      

Fifty-one rabbis

      

Six days of fasting

      

Countless prayers

      

One day without deodorant

      

A couple of barrels of booze (Shabbat wine and Simchat Torah scotch among them)

      

Untold amounts of revelation, joy, and, of course, guilt

      In short, a lot of Judaism.

      We’re talking an Ironman triathlon of holiday observance (or so it seems to those of us not brought up Orthodox).

      For most of her life, Abby was only loosely connected to her heritage. To borrow a phrase