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Words of the Week: Kate Schmier

by Erika Dreifus on March 17, 2026
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Screenshot from the Kveller website: "I Grew Up at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. For Me and My Family, There’s No Place Like It. It will be a long time before the sacred space I’ve known is fully restored. And yet, it was never just a building. By Kate Schmier."

A magnificent essay by Kate Schmier, on Kveller.

headline and subhead: I Grew Up at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. For Me and My Family, There’s No Place Like It. It will be a long time before the sacred space I’ve known is fully restored. And yet, it was never just a building.

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Erika Dreifus is a reader, writer, teacher, and literary advocate. She is also the editor and publisher of The Practicing Writer, a free (and popular) e-newsletter that features opportunities and resources for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction.

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