I am praying for the hostages in Israel. #BringThemHome. I am very concerned about the rise of anti-semitism. Please sign the ADL letter to the U.S. Department of Education to Make Colleges Safe from Antisemitism. See more on Instagram
In Los Angeles, I loved the grand opening of the Lobby Library at the Sheraton Grand in collaboration with Reese’s Book Club! Make sure to stop by and find your next favorite book.
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A Jewish high school in Los Angeles has developed a program that encourages students to reclaim their lives from social media. It is changing the conversation.
A Jewish high school in Los Angeles has developed a program that encourages students to reclaim their lives from social media. It is changing the conversation.
There is a difference between criticism that comes from responsibility and love, and an almost psychological need to prove to the world: I am not one of them.
Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem said Wednesday night that after undergoing lifesaving procedures in its trauma unit, Leiter underwent complex brain surgery lasting several hours along with additional treatments.
While so much of the world seems obsessed with and consumed by its hatred of Israel and Jews, Israelis continue to build, create, work, celebrate, argue, raise families, and plan for the future.
“The biggest concern is that people now have a pathway to shut down Jewish voices through complete falsities that people will believe. … For the future of Jewish entertainment, it’s very scary.”
Mark Smith has compiled an important anthology of Jewish history using 49 works by Yiddish historians to recreate or at least open the door to a world of Jewish thought that was once almost mainstream, but which no longer exists, except in the minds of too few specialists.
Most Jews who have sung “Eitz Chaim” over the past half-century probably never knew Portnoy. They did not know when he wrote the melody or how young he was when he composed it. They simply knew the song.
The failure of the social media era was not simply that we failed to predict what would happen. It was that we continued giving technology companies the benefit of the doubt long after there were compelling reasons not to.
This year, I bless us that we open our eyes to truly see the beauty and the holiness of the world, and of the person before us at each and every moment, and to see the godliness of their aspirations and their fears.
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Celebrate Brave-ish and my BIRTHDAY! Oct News 2023
Lisa Ellen Niver
Oct News 2023 with Lisa Niver & We Said Go Travel:
Thank you for all the birthday wishes! I loved my doors-off helicopter ride over Central Park with NYONair!
I signed my BOOK at AdWeek NYC 2023 in the Equality Lounge with The Female Quotient. My memoir was on the book-SHE-lf!
I am praying for the hostages in Israel. #BringThemHome. I am very concerned about the rise of anti-semitism. Please sign the ADL letter to the U.S. Department of Education to Make Colleges Safe from Antisemitism. See more on Instagram
In Los Angeles, I loved the grand opening of the Lobby Library at the Sheraton Grand in collaboration with Reese’s Book Club! Make sure to stop by and find your next favorite book.
Thank you to everyone for joining me to celebrate my new book! I have videos from my events in Santa Monica at Zibby’s bookshop and in Pasadena with Ms. Magazine at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Join me at my next events in Philadelphia and New Orleans: click here for details! More cities coming soon for 📚 my memoir, Brave-ish, One Break-up, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty, and I am very grateful for your support. 💕💕!
NEW ARTICLES and INTERVIEWS about me and my BOOK!
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10 New Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall: BRAVE-ish: “I can’t wait to dig into Niver’s honest account of how she transformed her life by committing to doing 50 new things by 50: diving with sharks and pulling 3-Gs while bobsledding. I love inspirational books, especially when travel, adventure, and gutsy women are involved.”
Read Article CLICK HERE TO see all of my interviews and articles about my new book and HERE for the rest of my Oct Birthday and BRAVE-ish news.
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