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Merrill Silver
October 10, 2024, 9:56 am
‘Food is memory’
Inhaling Rosh Hashanah through a nonworking nose
By Merrill Silver
Students worked through this New Yorker story by Roxane Gay; they found much to discuss there.
October 2, 2024, 2:57 pm
The genie is out of the bottle
What it’s like to teach a class of Haitian ESL students right now
By Merrill Silver
Merrill and Andy Silver stand in front of a photo of Andy; it’s made of images of him with challot he’s baked over the years.
June 20, 2024, 9:58 am
The sleepover
What it feels like the first time your 4-year-old grandson stays over without his parents
By Merrill Silver
The multigenerational Simcha band plays at Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Montclair.
March 28, 2024, 9:57 am
My Purim trifecta
Celebrating reluctantly but often in this new post-Oct. 7 world
By Merrill Silver
Even in terrible times, there still is joy.
October 19, 2023, 9:56 am
Life and death and life again
Shabbat Shemini Atzeret in three time zones
By Merrill Silver
How lost we’d be without our map apps. Here, Merrill Silver and her husband, Andy, hike around San Francisco.
September 6, 2023, 7:59 pm
Oh no! I forgot my cellphone
Considering a temporarily Google-free life
By Merrill Silver
June 8, 2023, 10:57 am
Welcome to my backyard
By Merrill Silver
Merrill Silver stands with her class at the public library. (Photos courtesy Merrill Silver)
February 16, 2023, 9:58 am
‘The library isn’t a building. It’s a community’
‘The library isn’t a building. It’s a community’
By Merrill Silver
Merrill Silver in her about-to-be-denuded classroom.
August 17, 2022, 4:57 pm
My frozen classroom
An ESL teacher looks back at 30 years of work, education, and love
By Merrill Silver
David and Zelda Greenstein, their son, Yona, and Yona’s fiancée Housso were at the brunch on Sunday. (John Lassiter)
July 6, 2022, 5:57 pm
To everything there is a season
A celebration of Rabbi David Greenstein upon his retirement
By Merrill Silver
Another grandson and an adult guest in Montclair.
April 27, 2022, 7:57 pm
My magical visitors
A look back at time, change, and memory
By Merrill Silver
Samar and her 5-year-old daughter work together; Merrill reads the text telling her that Samar passed the test.
February 16, 2022, 5:57 pm
‘We the People’
Helping a Syrian immigrant become an American
By Merrill Silver
Merrill Silver sits on her beloved loveseat.
December 29, 2021, 4:58 pm
A love (seat) story
Tracing the seven ages of couch
By Merrill Silver
Hannah and her husband, Howard Ehrenreich, and Andy Emily, and Daniel Silver are at the circus in Van Cortlandt Park in 1987.
November 10, 2021, 5:56 pm
Remembering Hannah
My palindromic mother-in-law would have turned 99 last month
By Merrill Silver
Andy Silver makes motzei in his backyard as his family watches.
September 17, 2021, 8:56 am
‘What would Hillel do?’
A High Holiday primer
By Merrill Silver
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