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Moshe Blatman was my cousin’s brother-in-law, and on my first trip to Israel I was told to make sure to visit him, that he was like family. He and his wife Frieda lived in an apartment in Tel Aviv, and owned a small cosmetics shop on Rehov Shenken, (in the 70s it was not as […]
Spring is here, Purim is over, and Passover is just weeks away. For the third year in a row, we are going back East to celebrate Passover with our children at the home of our older son and daughter-in-law, a home where we have always felt welcomed and included, to a seder that is open […]
Imagine sitting in a dimly lit room, when suddenly a stranger walks in, throws open the curtains and turns on the light. Those two small gestures can alter the scene. That’s what I experienced this week when Effi joined our staff. A petite Israeli woman, of Moroccan descent, our conversation quickly turned to food. I […]
On some cold winter days when there was not much to do, my sister would take me downtown to wander around a museum. I only remember visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Museum of Natural History, not The Frick, Guggenheim, or MoMA (maybe she thought I was too young to appreciate those) but […]
