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When people hear the word “Yiddish,” images of the Holocaust, Chassidic Jews or even Tevya from Anatevka may come to mind. In its prime, Yiddish was a language spoken by millions of Jews. However, its popularity, and perhaps necessity has died along with various immigration waves and Hitler’s destruction of European Jewry. Continue Reading
I wanted to write this article for Yom Kippur describing a disconcerting problem and providing a solution for it that you could relate to. But I don’t have a solution: I have experience, strength and hope that this will touch one person. Continue Reading
Two years ago I welcomed Elul with a sense of deep foreboding. After living with my own mortality, wrestling with continuing to make a life for myself in the midst of life-threatening illness, shifting relationships, months during which I could not eat and was kept alive with intravenous nutrition, at the High Holidays I could not reflect on my life or consider my mortality. I was still having nightmares that I was in a room full of people talking, laughing, and eating, only I couldn’t. I was pretty sure I would never fast again. Continue Reading
If you’re a single mom, you already know the last thing you’re thinking about when moving out of your old, married life is a mezuzah. So why am I thinking about them? Continue Reading
I keep coming back to three things as I think over my experience of this playlast night: Continue Reading
My mom loves to tell the story of how as a stubborn child I once ate only olives for a week. I believe it, especially since my own child has the tendency to only eat Ketchup. Stubborn eating apparently runs in the family. Continue Reading
After a depressing spring it is finally picnic season. With 4th of July, the mother of all picnic dates right around the corner, my thoughts turn to easy, blanket-worthy meals I can make while feverishly stuffing towels and bug spray into a beach bag. The quintessential picnic foods must be simple, easy to eat while sitting uncomfortably on a hard surface, and most importantly, fun. Continue Reading
In light of the recent news that 94-year-old NE Minneapolis resident Michael Karkoc was a top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit, I was asked if there was a “Jewish perspective” on how Nazi war criminals should be treated. While I certainly do not hold exclusive rights to “The Authentic Jewish Perspective,” I will gladly share some of my thoughts with you. Continue Reading
