Read Susan Shapiro's endearing tribute to her mother-in-law on lemondrop.com

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Our siblings and parents all had other plans this year, so we hosted our own vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. ( Read more... )

I made travel reservations for our trip to Jacksonville in late January/early February for our nephew's bar mitzvah. Airfare, car rental & hotel will cost $1161. I would not for a minute consider not going; Benjamin's parent's divorce has been hard on him, and he needs the support, as do his siblings and my brother (who volunteered me to chant ( Read more... )

We did not have to chose between mountains/forest vs. sea shore on this vacation. Yesterday we did both. We hiked a challenging trail on a hill/mountain just southwest of the Foxwoods Casino and the Pequot Indian Museum (we visited the latter years ago & is worth a trip on its own) and then drove to the shore and walked along the Southington ( Read more... )

The bar-mitzvah was lovely. Gilad is a sweet affectionate kid. His older brother reads Hebrew with an Israeli accent, but Gilad reads Hebrew with a Spanish accent (their mom and step-father live in Barcelona; they were born in Israel where their dad, my cousin, lives ( Read more... )

As you may know, today is holocaust rememberance day in Israel. For a summary of how the end came to the Jews of Drohitchin (my grandmother's home town), see the on line English translation of the Drohitchin Memorial Book

For a profile of my great great grandfather

and my great grandparentsThe latter article seems to translate my grandmother's ( Read more... )

Pesach 2007 at Cohens and Coopers

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