About Respect
In the past month, we went from hectic, frenzied days to relaxed days of freedom. How fast time flies when we’re enjoying it!
The Midrash...
From Reuben With Love
A couple of weeks ago, our kehillah was plunged into mourning when we learned of the sudden passing of Reuben Kahn, a longtime friend...
What’s That Lurking Behind Your Ear?
Four-year-old Dovi sauntered over to his mother, brandishing a T-pin he’d taken from her home-based sheitel salon. Without a word, his cheeky smirk conveyed...
All That Glitters
When I got married in Eretz Yisrael in the 1960s, it was a different world from ours in so many ways, yet very much...
Digging Up Her Own History
She grew up in Italy, unaware of what being Jewish actually meant, but from an early age her soul glowed with a deep, inexplicable...
At The Side Of The President
“We were sitting at a dinner with Putin in Russia when he told me that his parents had worked very hard when he was...
Breaking Free
I woke up from a fitful sleep to the sound of rhythmic breathing in my bedroom. I glanced at my husband Yaakov’s bed. It...
The Ugly Truth
It was a big day for Nefertiti, queen of ancient Egypt. To look her very best, her attendant carefully applied her makeup. And to...
Filling The Empty Nest
It's the sound that greets me first, the gentle murmur of roughly a dozen women at least 20 years my senior coming from somewhere...
My Mother’s Last Chesed
When my mother passed away, it wasn’t only her children and grandchildren who felt the void. The entire community mourned her petirah.
My mother, a”h,...
