Jen Maidenberg

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Aug 4, 2015, 10:51 AM

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Home with her son all summer, with and absolutely nothing to do except hope that nothing happens

Sep 3, 2014, 5:10 PM

Dropping ‘nag’ from Mom’s job description

A book with creative solutions that help parents raise respectful, responsible, and resilient children

Aug 1, 2014, 10:05 AM

The story within the story

I've been on a Paul Auster kick. In the last month, I've read two of his books, Oracle Night and The Book of Illusions. The two techniques that Auster masters that most draw me in to his tales are 1) the seamless infusion...

May 5, 2014, 11:25 AM

POEM: 'My heart is indeed swollen...I don't know if it's for the soldiers...or if it's for the wail itself'

Mar 24, 2014, 5:18 PM

The underprotected Israeli kid

A bunch of friends I know in real life and on social media shared with me Hanna Rosin’s article in The Atlantic this week. “The Overprotected Kid” focuses on modern parents' preoccupation with safety and cleanliness, and with rules that...

Feb 24, 2014, 11:32 AM

If I cry in February

It's that time of year again ... February in Israel -- And a love poem has been percolating inside of me. Each Saturday in February, I promise to find the words and put them down. But instead I get lost in the fields of...

Dec 4, 2013, 3:16 PM

This C-level prefers jeans

In the past week, I've left my safe shlumpy cocoon of Israel's Galilee countryside to attend two conferences in "the center." Both required me to think twice about my outfit. One gathering was an independently organized TedX event at the Center for...

Nov 18, 2013, 10:47 AM

The zombie in all of us

This is not a metaphor. We literally have a zombie inside all of us. Mine sits quietly in my stomach until three days before my period or three minutes before my blood sugar drops to the point of no return. If you...

Nov 11, 2013, 9:10 PM

What we talk about when we talk about Peoplehood in the age of the crowd

Once or twice a year I make my way from the fertile countryside to where the action really happens in Israel --Raanana. Just kidding. In fact, I take the bus, two and a half hours without a bathroom stop, all the...

Oct 24, 2013, 11:26 AM

The small ways Israel sweetens me

I didn’t know, until I moved to this country, that the cherry tomato was an Israeli invention. It’s not really. That is to say, Israelis didn’t invent the cherry tomato; that’s a myth. But they made it better. The cherry tomato...

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About Me

Jen Maidenberg made Aliyah to the Lower Galilee with her family in 2011. A published writer and author, she chronicles her life in prose and poetry at www.andyaddayadda.com