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Last week I lost two important people in my life, my cousin Robert, who was more like an older brother than a cousin, and my close friend Ruthie. I went back East for Robert’s funeral and what I experienced over the course of five days was the workings of a family who come together like […]
Sometimes it really is the little things in life that makes you happy. Today I had a perfect afternoon. I came home from work early, planning to make my latkes so I could freeze them, something I don’t normally do but this year I needed to make lots of them. Unexpectedly it began to rain […]
During the Seder I shared an article written by Rabbi Debora Gordon in which she writes about “leaving Passover behind”. We are coming to the last days of the Chag and I too am sad to know that the end of the holiday is approaching. It isn’t just the departure of two of my […]
The Chanukah of my childhood bears little resemblance to how we now celebrate the holiday. Growing up there were three ways that a visitor to our home would recognize that it was Chanukah. Latkes were being fried in the kitchen, a Hanukkiah was prominently placed on the dining room table, and a dreidel or two […]
As a young girl I always thought that “bubela” was a term of endearment. I am not sure how old I was when I found out that it was also a pancake. This is a recipe that my Mom made every Passover. Our friends, the Androns, lived across the alley from my parents and when their […]
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