Monthly Archives: April 2009
Now What?
by Ellie Sugarman (Sarasota, FL) The many hours, weeks and months that I’ve spent learning Hebrew are almost over. I will become a bat mitzvah on May 9th, 2009 at Temple Sinai in Sarasota. My family and friends are planning … Continue reading
Filed under American Jewry, Jewish identity
Remembrance
by Nina Gold (Waterville, ME) On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah in Hebrew, he told her he was human he understood what it was to fear long walks, gas, and G-d— but he felt, too, the hot terror in the … Continue reading
Filed under Jewish identity
My Father, The Jewish Athlete
by Helen Epstein (Lexington, Massachusetts) When I was growing up in the 1950s, none of my friends’ Dads worked out at a gym, let alone swam laps in a pool. My father did. For nearly two decades between the two … Continue reading
Filed under European Jewry, Jewish identity
