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Congratulations to MFA Alum Risa Polansky Shiman on her most recent essay publication,

An excerpt from :

It’s almost dinnertime, and in a perhaps overly familiar parenting tableau, I am standing at the counter plating my kids’ food and scarfing down bites of my own. My husband walks into the kitchen.

“Sit!” he says. “Sit while you eat!”

This is a big thing for Marc, who has told me more than once, “Jews sit when they eat.”

Many a generalization has been made about the Jewish people. This, for me, was a new one, and something I always meant to fact check but never did.

He’s probably not wrong, though, that focusing on one’s food is a good idea (for people of all religious backgrounds and affiliations). Focusing in general, really.   []

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