{"id":876,"date":"2016-05-05T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2016-05-05T14:43:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:13:25","slug":"a-jewish-fable-for-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/a-jewish-fable-for-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"A Jewish fable for adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0997341602\/?tag=stephaniegold-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-879\" src=\"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kelev-Cover-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"Illustratordefault\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kelev-Cover-189x300.jpg 189w, http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kelev-Cover-768x1221.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kelev-Cover-644x1024.jpg 644w, http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Kelev-Cover.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Kelev&#8217;s Journey: A Jewish Dog Wanders Home,<\/span><\/em> by my client David Hammerstein, is about to be published, and I&#8217;m just thrilled. I knew Kelev when he was first coming into the world.<\/p>\n<p>David is a retired investment advisor who took up creative writing during a difficult time in his life. He found himself producing stories about Kelev, a black Lab who lives in Pittsburgh with an orthodox Jewish family. When Kelev learns about his Jewish heritage from his beagle buddy Schmalzie, he embarks on a spiritual journey as God\u2019s <em>mitzvah macher<\/em>. Nosing through a thicket of thorny questions about Judaism in a quest to achieve <em>tikkun olam<\/em> and heal the world, Kelev becomes a leader among local animals, resolving disputes and helping neighborhood cats and dogs discover their own Jewish faith. Then he performs the ultimate <em>mitzvah,<\/em> and finds peace.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m far from orthodox, but I thoroughly enjoyed editing this delightful book. Not only is it a lovely expression of a truly universal, open-minded spirituality, but <em>really<\/em> funny. I read it over and over as it went through revisions, and I laughed at the jokes each time.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a short paperback with adorable illustrations and will be great for adults to read to children (though first you want to read it for yourself).<\/p>\n<p>You can \u201clook inside\u201d the book on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0997341602\/?tag=stephaniegold-20\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelev&#8217;s Journey: A Jewish Dog Wanders Home, by my client David Hammerstein, is about to be published, and I&#8217;m just thrilled. I knew Kelev when he was first coming into the world. David is a retired investment advisor who took up creative writing during a difficult time in his life. He found himself producing stories about Kelev, a black Lab who lives in Pittsburgh with an orthodox Jewish family. When Kelev learns about his Jewish heritage from his beagle buddy Schmalzie, he embarks on a spiritual journey as God\u2019s mitzvah macher. Nosing through a thicket of thorny questions about Judaism[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4],"tags":[138,135,136,137],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-writing","tag-childrens-books","tag-judaism","tag-mitzvah","tag-tikkun-olam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}