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Robert Avrech:
"It's hard for
Orthodox boys to
put themselves in
certain imagina-
tive places."

The late Ariel
Avrech: "Publish
fiction that is of the
highest quality yet
also suitable f
or kids who hold
Torah values,"
Ariel told his father

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her "to-be-read" shelf.
The story chronicles the adventures of
a pious Jewish family who survive a
Cossack program and escape to
America.
The father, a rabbi, is an idealist who
searches for the 36 righteous people for
whose sake the world exists. The mother
drives the mule cart and cooks a mean
chicken soup. The 17-year-old daughter
craves an American life, and the 12-
year-old son (named Ariel) meets the
Apache princess Lozen.
"It's hard for Orthodox boys to put
themselves in certain imaginative
places," Avrech said. "It's hard to be an
Orthodox secret agent, putting yourself
in another time and place. This book
allows their imaginations to fly."
It's not only the plot and characters
that are unorthodox in their Orthodoxy,
though: Seraphic Press is not just a pub-
lishing company but a blog as well. At
wwwseraphicpress.com, Avrech has

been writing about his son, his son's
death and his own life.
He also has made the book available
on the Web site, where it can be down-
loaded in a 234-page PDF file. The file
contains the entire book, complete with
copyright page and a line drawing at the
beginning of each chapter.
Avrech writes that he's confident that
many readers who download the book
will want to buy it. He might not be
wrong. Seraphic Press' New-York based
distributor, Marvin Sekler of Jonathan
David Books, said that in less than a
month some bookstores already have
reordered The Hebrew Kid more than
once. It's also available at major book
retailers such as Amazon.com, Barnes
and Noble and Borders.
Positive feedback is arriving from
unexpected directions, Avrech said.
"The most email I get is from reli-
gious Christians, fascinated by the mate-
rial," he said. ❑

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Rackham Symphony Choir presents

Holocaust Cantga....

Songs from the Camps

"P4

By Donald McCullough

VOASINT'

message is that you can be
value. My Jewish back-
vastly different from oth-
ground taught me to look
ers and still appreciate
for answers.
them for who they are."
Edut keeps in touch with
Edut advises young
the teen world by watching
people to access Web sites
the TV shows they watch,
for teens, using the mes-
reading the magazines they
sage boards and blogs.
read and listening to them
She says she prefers a
through the letters she gets.
public forum instead of a
She reports that almost
Ophira Edut: "My
diary hidden away with
every question posed is dra- Jewish background
lock and key because each
matic because teens' lives
taught me to look for
teen needs to be heard by
occur to them as dramatic.
answers."
other teens with some
Edut compares astrology
monitoring by parents.
for teens to her art major
Her cautionary statement comes from
earned at the University of Michigan.
experience with one of her Web sites
Both, she says, involve intuition and
used by one or more people writing
sensitivity to people. She also believes
that teens respond to astrology because what she considered perverse com-
ments.
it's fun, entertaining, exciting and
"1\4 general advice to teens is to find
magical.
people who think they're great just as
"To look at the world as an artist
they are and find things they love to
means you're open to not judging
do," she says. "I also tell them to find
things but observing them and being
ways to express whatever messages they
creative," she says. "I believe that
want to give to the world."
everybody has a lot of creative power. I
relate to teens as if they're artists of
their own lives. Being an artist is a lot
Ophira Edut answers questions
about experimenting, trying out new
addressed to Ophira@JVibe.com .
ideas and making mistakes.
"A Little Help Please!" should go in
"I think teens can learn tolerance
the subject line. For a free trial copy
and diversity — how to get along with
ofJVibe, go to wwwJvibe.com .
any personality — from astrology. My

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