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Janet Silver Ghent

Janet Silver Ghent

Janet Silver Ghent, a retired senior editor at J., is the author of “Love Atop a Keyboard: A Memoir of Late-life Love” (Mascot Press). She lives in Palo Alto and can be reached at [email protected].

Catherine Crystal Foster (left) and Karen Kronick trace a sanitary pad template during Congregation Beth Am's Mitzvah Day in March. (Todd Kaye)
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Fighting period poverty and menstrual ignorance, one pad at a time

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent June 15, 2026June 15, 2026

On a recent Sunday afternoon at Congregation Beth Am, I grabbed scissors and cut cotton cloth into oblongs for reusable menstrual pads.  In rural Uganda, where the pads are destined […]

A man drinks from a segregated water fountain in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1950. (Elliott Erwitt/National Museum of American History via Wikimedia/CC0 1.0)
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‘Stick to your own kind’? Sometimes, it’s not about race

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent April 24, 2026April 24, 2026
woman holds child
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We can cherish grandchildren of other faiths while keeping Judaism alive

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent February 10, 2026February 10, 2026
I found myself reminiscing over family photos and mementos during the move.
(Allen F. Podell/Courtesy)
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We did it! We downsized, packed up our memories and moved into senior housing

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent December 29, 2025December 30, 2025
Clifford's Tower in York
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A walking tour of York highlights England’s messy history with Jews

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent October 28, 2025October 29, 2025
Sarah Everard
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We hoped to offer comfort after a daughter’s tragic and very public death

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent August 6, 2025August 12, 2025
Brett Farkas Komanovsky and Hillary Farkas in 1990
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J. reader and I discover our oddly parallel lives around our daughters’ cancer

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent June 30, 2025July 3, 2025
Janet, age 9, at a summer rental in Fairfield, Connecticut, with her father, Robert M. Silver. (Courtesy)
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Shame upon shame: When I was a child, humiliation was routine

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent May 9, 2025May 14, 2025
Janet Silver Ghent dances with her father, Robin Martin Silver, at her first wedding in 1965. (Courtesy)
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My return to Judaism was a matter of joy and pride, not crises

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent February 12, 2025February 12, 2025
photo of a person leaning on wooden window
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Facing a holiday alone? Sometimes you just need to swallow your pride

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent December 17, 2024December 18, 2024

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