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Passover will be unlike anything that most of us have ever experienced before. This is what it looks like in my kitchen, so far. I am cleaning, but not with my usual zeal. I have a fair amount of kosher L’Pesach products, but this year I will be forgiving, and will use substitutions, within reason. […]
Yesterday, just about a week before Pesach (Passover), my kitchen and dining room table were covered in flour. Mounds of dough were portioned out around the edge of the table, potatoes were boiling in the kitchen, and salad ingredients were being chopped on every available surface. My daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, is involved in an organization called […]
My parents arrived in the United States in 1952 after having spent five years living in Paris, France. Even at a very young age, I remember my mother’s reaction to being called “greener,” refugee, Survivor, Eastern European. Somehow I knew that every label was painful, stripping her of her dignity. I am sure she just […]
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 […]
My sister, brother-in-law, and older son came to town this week for my father’s unveiling. Yes, it was sad and emotional, but it was also a celebration of a life lived to the fullest. Well they have all gone home and, tonight, when I sat down to write this post, all I could think of […]
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