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Category: guest essays

Essays by members of our listening and reading audience.

guest kaddish: velvet marquesa flicka storm, 11 august 2005–9 april 2015

Posted on 25 April 2015 by erin

Dad (Paul F. Vang) wrote this remembrance of a darned sweet black lab, whom I named (see below) and will always remember as the best lap-lab ever. There was nothing quite like relaxing in a recliner with Flicka stretched full-length on your lap. We miss you, Flicka.

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guest kaddish: Gudrun Fossum Vang (16 June 1905–3 April 1972)

Posted on 9 April 2012 by erin

Dad wrote this remembrance of his mother on her Yahrtzeit in an email to the family last week, and he agreed with my suggestion to post it here.

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guest kaddish from David Mohr—for Kimba

Posted on 8 December 20118 December 2011 by mira

This is for Kimba. It might seem strange to have a kaddish for a dog, but she really was a part of the family. For more than 15 years, she was my companion. I lived with her longer than anyone except my mother and Kimba saw me through the heartache of three relationships as well…

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daily kaddish: for Lillian Isabel (October 18–21, 2011)

Posted on 13 November 201127 November 2011 by erin

My friend Cori Kesler wrote me a few days before I made this recording for her, and I’m really sorry that I got so far behind in posting these daily Kaddishim that I’m only now sharing it with her almost a month later.

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Oh, and one more thing…

Posted on 9 October 20119 October 2011 by lori

A guest essay from Lori Jennings-Emery, who knew Steve Jobs from her eleven years working at Apple: The past few days, I’ve read a lot of stories about Steve Jobs and the kinds of memories folks have of him. I’ve been thinking about my various encounters with Steve, trying to decide which story to share.

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guest essay: Dude!

Posted on 21 September 201121 September 2011 by Lori Goldwyn

Don’t assume rabbis, or any Jewish people for that matter, will be mensches when you need them to be.

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a yizkor for Hy Glantz — guest post from Alana Glantz Zussman and Michael Jacob Zussman

Posted on 6 July 20117 July 2011 by mira

Here is the speech we read at Grandpa Hy’s funeral.  Hy (his full name was Herman) Glantz was born February 22, 1924 and died July 2, 2011 of mesothelioma. Most likely due to asbestos exposure while working in the Brooklyn Navy Yards in the 1940s. In the Glantz family there is a tradition started by…

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a kaddish for Randy — guest post from Tim Lavalli

Posted on 27 June 201129 June 2011 by mira

A good friend died this week. He took his own life. We are all shocked and saddened by his passing and we are all asking ourselves – why? Which is to say, we are having the normal human reaction to such an unnecessary loss. I am not going to praise him here, you did not…

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A Kaddish for my mother, Ruth Leavitt Kadish

Posted on 28 April 201121 September 2011 by Lori Goldwyn

It’s been 7 months since my mother’s passing on September 19, 2010.

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some perspectives from the shikse’s dad

Posted on 26 April 201126 April 2011 by erin

Dad and I were talking about the “kaddish in two-part harmony” project the other night, and he muttered something about spending a career dealing with death. I’d never quite put it together that his thirty years in the Social Security Administration had had him dealing with death all the time—well, duh! So I asked him to write a guest essay about what that was like.

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Posts

  • kaddish for anke akevit (2015-20)
  • a kaddish for too many suicide victims—but it gets better!
  • a kaddish for sigrid syltetøy vang, b. 2006, d. 27 February 2018
  • guest kaddish: velvet marquesa flicka storm, 11 august 2005–9 april 2015
  • the stones I cannot place
  • oh amy, how could you — a kaddish for amy smith
  • guest kaddish: Gudrun Fossum Vang (16 June 1905–3 April 1972)
  • occasional kaddish: for Josephine Selvig Anderson (11 April 1915– 22 January 2012)
  • and death is so much closer than it was—a kaddish for rebecca fromer
  • easy come easy go: a kaddish for adrienne cooper
  • nyt remembrances—a kaddish for departed strangers
  • guest kaddish from David Mohr—for Kimba
  • killing you loudly—a kaddish
  • anything, anything but a mystical experience
  • daily kaddish: our project’s yahrtzeit

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