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In Aaron Lansky‘s book, Outwitting History, he relates that in the Conservative synagogue he attended as a young boy, the front rows of the shul were filled with ” American-born professionals” who created an atmosphere that become more decorous each year. On the other hand, the back of the shul was filled with Eastern European […]
My mother would hang the wet laundry on clothes lines that were strung across the rooftop of our building. She carried it up the stairs in a laundry basket with her wooden clothespins resting on top. On her way up she would pass the apartment of an Italian family with a daughter named Rosemary, who […]
For over eighteen years Norm and I would pile our three kids into the blue Volvo station wagon on Friday afternoons and head down to Palm Springs where Norm’s parents would rent a condo every winter. Pinnie and Lil were snow-birds, leaving behind their home in Toronto and flying West to enjoy six weeks of […]
