Alan D. Busch
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Print Publications
"Shabbas Mincha With Reb Isser", Horizons Magazine, Targum Press, Summer 2009
"Reckoning" OU.org. Shabbat Shalom feature, May 2009
"Al Ha Nissim" The Jewish Press, March 2009
"Stuff My Father Won't Tell Me" long version, PoeticaMagazine.com, Fall 2009
"Tefilin and Teacher', The Jewish Press, May 2000
"These Lights We Kindle" Aish.com, January 2009
"A Father Muses as the Eighth Anniversary of His Son's Death Nears" 2009 Summer or Fall edition of Living With Loss, Bereavement Publications.
"Stuff My Father Won't Tell Me, Part 11, Struggling To Do The Right Thing" short version The Jewish Press (NY) in January of 2009 in its Lessons In Emunah column.
"Lamentations", The Jewish Press (NY) in its Lessons in Emunah feature on October 11, 2008.
Snapshots In Memory of Ben by Alan D. Busch, Water Forest Press, Victoria Valentine, 2007
Original poetry, “Shacharis Musings”, will be published by Poetica Publishing Co., in spring or summer of 2008.
Review of Snapshots In Memory of Ben by Shayna Hunt, published in Jewish Press (NY)
Reprint of above review of Snapshots In Memory of Ben by Shayna Hunt in 2008 Passover edition of Jewish Federation News Magazine of Chicago.
Review of Snapshots In Memory of Ben by the books editor of PoeticaMagazine.com
Everyone’s Got A Story, an anthology of new Jewish voices by Ruchama King Feuerman, that will include two of my original essays, published by Judaica Press.
Original Poetry, “From Your Room” published in 2008 Skyline Review edited by Victoria Valentine.
“The Last Time” the first chapter of my manuscript In Memory of Ben will be published by JUF of Chicago in its September 2007 edition
Original poetry and prose "From Your Room" and "Musings of A Bereft Father Six Years Later" published by Living With Loss, Bereavement Publications in its 2007 summer edition.
Original prose “Every Day is Thanksgiving” published by Living With Loss, Bereavement Publications, November 1, 2007 winter edition.
Original poetry “Mourning's Reflections" in Passing, an anthology of poetry published Poetryworks.com.
Reprint of “Musings of A Bereaved Father Six Years Later” by Jewish Funeral Directors of America in its national magazine; for more specific information, contact Carla Blowey at editor.livingwithloss.com
On Line Publications:
Original prose "Stepping Into The Sukkah" published by Aish.com
http://www.aish.com/spirituality/odysseys/Stepping_into_the_Sukkah.asp
Original prose "Closing the Grave" published by Jewish Magazine http://www.jewishmag.com/113mag/escortdead/escortdead.html
New Jersey Faith Forum: "A Father’s Tribute to His Late Son"
New Jersey Faith Forum: "It Happened Again"
http://njfaithforum.blogspot.com/2007/03/fathers-tribute-to-his-late-son.
Professional References:
Mary Pat Tuxbury
www.mptbooks.com
Ruchama King Feuerman
http://writetogether.typepad.com/3.
Carla Blowey
editor.livingwithloss.com