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27 February

12:30pm

Dina Rabinovitch

Take off your party dress

 

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Take Off Your Party Dress

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“If I have to read one more headline,” Dina Rabinovitch writes to a friend, “announcing that the cure for cancer is only years away, I may just scream and scream.” Dina, from a long line of Lithuanian Mitnagdim, grew up in a Judaism of rigorous thinking and demanding scepticism. When diagnosed with breast cancer, she found out that she also comes from a family riddled with cancer. Her book, Take off Your Party Dress, describes the clash of cultures when Jewish mom meets chemotherapy.

Dina Rabinovitch is a writer and critic, with four children whom she had young, breast-fed forever and she still got breast cancer!

Dinablog: http://www.takeoffyourrunningshoes.typepad.com

 

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