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It’s on summer days when the hours are long, that I miss it the most, the kind of communal feeling that existed when I was growing up in our apartment in the Bronx. It was a time when everyone knew the names of their neighbors, and had a relationship with them. Most of the women […]
It had been seven years since our last visit but as soon as we exited the plane everything felt familiar. We drove straight to Jerusalem where we spent the next several days. Staying in Rechavia, we walked everywhere, but mainly we returned to the places we had been before, including two of my favorites, Yemin […]
“A living stew of inconsistencies” is how our friend Meyer described himself in a Dvar Torah that he gave several weeks ago. Many of us are inconsistent in how we practice or observe Judaism, but Passover is a holiday when perfectly rational people behave in irrational ways. My daughter has repeatedly accused me of being […]
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 […]
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