Cheryl Pearl Sucher is an American writer who lives between Cranbury, New Jersey and Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. An award-winning essayist, fiction writer and reviewer, she has written about The Southernmost Jewish Community in the World for Random House NZ’s JEWISH LIVES IN NEW ZEALAND. Her first novel, THE RESCUE OF MEMORY, was published by Scribner in the US and she is currently revising her second, LOST CITIES. She was one of six interviewer/presenters on Television Hawkes Bay’s half-hour interview program, CHATROOM.
Cheryl Pearl Sucher
By Cheryl Pearl Sucher
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Community Growing Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
I wasn’t aware there was either an annual Day of Remembrance or Holocaust Memorial Day until I went to Israel on a pre-college semester at Tel Aviv University a few months after the Yom Kippur War. In my life, every day was Holocaust Memorial Day. I was a child of Holocaust survivors whose small community…
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Community My Post Traumatic Election Disorder Pushed Me Back to New Zealand
It’s been 10 days since I returned to my other home in New Zealand. When I first returned to live for the majority of the year in the United States this past spring, I wrote a short piece explaining why Ruth Bader Ginsberg had the right idea when she chided that if Donald Trump became…
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Community 14 Reasons Ruth Bader Ginsberg Should Come Live In New Zealand
This morning I woke up to read on my Internet feed that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice extraordinaire, Queen of Torts, the Notorious RBG, opera aficionado and feminist icon, said that if Donald Trump wins, it’s time to move to New Zealand.’ This irony was not lost on me as I recently returned to…
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Recipes A Jewish Smorgasbord Grows in Brooklyn
Growing up a child of Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors in central Brooklyn in the 1960s, the only time I saw a raw vegetable in our kitchen was when celery, parsnips, carrots and turnips were being washed and peeled for the weekly cauldron of chicken soup that simmered on our stove on a low gas flame…
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