Cheryl Pearl Sucher
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Cheryl Pearl Sucher is the cookbook section manager at the McNally Robinson Bookstore in Nolita and the author of the novel THE RESCUE OF MEMORY (Scribner) for which she was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts Creative Fellowship in Fiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in THE KENYON REVIEW, THE SOUTHWEST REVIEW, MIDSTREAM and the online journals KILLING THE BUDDHA.COM, MSNBC.COM and WOMEN IN JUDAISM.COM. Ms. Sucher is married to a Kiwi and divides her time between Manhattan and Dunedin, New Zealand. In recent years, her essays and book reviews have appeared in the NEW ZEALAND SUNDAY STAR-TIMES, THE NEW ZEALAND LISTENER, THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD and the OTAGO DAILY TIMES. She is also the New York Correspondent for Radio New Zealand's Saturday Morning Show with Kim Hill. The introduction to her family memoir THE NEXT MIRACLE is featured in the Spring 2008 edition of the BELLEVUE LITERARY REVIEW.

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Life Is Prayer During the Days of Awe

4 Comments | Posted October 6, 2011 | 16:13:53 (EST)

For the 10 days beginning with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom Kippur, the Lord, God of Israel, weighs the souls of the Jewish people on scales that defy mathematical calculation. Sitting upon His heavenly tabernacle before His giant accounting tablets, he decides who shall live and who shall die,...

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Reflections on a Natural Disaster by a New York Kiwi

Posted March 2, 2011 | 15:53:40 (EST)

I am a New York Kiwi, as rare as the nocturnal flightless long-beaked bird that is the symbol of my husband's homeland. Since we married in 1999, I have lived between Manhattan and New Zealand, two places that are as different as my cultural urbanity is from my husband's adrenaline-rushing...

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The Foreigners are Coming, the Foreigners are Coming!

Posted June 4, 2008 | 21:08:34 (EST)

"These are the times that try men's souls ... Tyranny like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing...

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