So Health, you define feminism as routinely going shopping?

If you are a women- then nebuch on you that you define your femininity in such inane terms!

I agree with you ShragaF- most jewish novels are boring junk.

You can say you like them- because that’s your opinion, but it takes more than just your opinion to make a book be well written.

But Meir Uri Gottesman “The Harp” is completely kosher and a complete masterpiece! Deep Blue is also fantastic.

I also loved “Every Man a Slave”- nobody can complain about research there…

The thing is most of these books are old. If you’ve already read all the oldies and goodies- you can’t expect anything that just came out to be good…

Though- Yael Mermelstien’s “Moonlight” is not a novel- it does have some really professional short stories. The one about the circus and the mink stole- could very well be used in high schools- to be analyzed. I actually thought that it compared well to O’henry’s style

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I really sympathize with you and your two daughters… I am also the daughter of a divorced family and have one, and only one sister…

All my life, I have been shlepping around to other people’s sedarim. Yes, even before my parents were divorced (my mother couldn’t stand my father’s sedarim… so we shlepped around). I understand that it is no easy feat being everybody’s “kol dichfin”…

I don’t think I would mind doing a seder by myself (or with my sister), but for society sake, and established norms, and by the law of “It’s Just Not Done…” I drag myself along- to aunts and uncles, grandparents, 3rd cousins-seven-times-remove, well-meaning rabbis and rebbetzins…