MFA Alum Risa Shiman Publishes Essay in Kveller

Congratulations to MFA Alum Risa Polansky Shiman on her most recent essay publication, "Jews Sit When They Eat and Other Useful Parenting Hacks" at Kveller.

An excerpt from "Jews Sit When They Eat and Other Useful Parenting Hacks":

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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