Mark Oppenheimer > Quotes

“Between 1971 and 2013, Conservative Judaism went from being the denominational home of 41 percent of American Jews to representing only 18 percent. Along the way, the career of Jeffrey Myers would suffer the same fortunes as the movement.”
― Mark Oppenheimer, Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood

“Imagine a book that they would want to read?”
― Mark Oppenheimer, Judy Blume: A Life

“We discussed prejudice”
― Mark Oppenheimer, Judy Blume: A Life

“I’m gonna fuck with this kid in some twisted way’?”
― Mark Oppenheimer, Judy Blume: A Life

“Judy Blume has not forgotten the palest ribbon from her younger years.”
― Mark Oppenheimer, Judy Blume: A Life

“A creative person with no outlet is in real danger of falling apart….”
― Mark Oppenheimer, Judy Blume: A Life

“Go for it”
― Mark Oppenheimer, Judy Blume: A Life

“It’s the kind of gratitude you have, she said, “when you’ve had a teacher who’s brilliant, who has shown you the way in a fundamental sense, not in a relative sense. Who has really been able to help you see for yourself the fundamental reality beyond the duality of good and evil.” Alas, she added, Zen Buddhists can “forget that we have to live in the relative world of good and evil, that we have to make choices based on right and wrong.”
― Mark Oppenheimer, The Zen Predator of the Upper East Side

“Judy also helped establish a new genre—realism for young people—at a time when young readers had more autonomy,”
― Mark Oppenheimer, Judy Blume: A Life

“trend of “bibliotherapy,” that is”
― Mark Oppenheimer, Judy Blume: A Life

“immiserated”
― Mark Oppenheimer, Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood