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Glorified and Sanctified

byVan Wallach (Westport, CT) Recently I heard about the death of a woman I once knew named Adina. She had been one of the very first women I dated after moving to New York in 1980. I found a paid … Continue reading

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Rosh Hashanah: The First Without My Father

by Jane Ruth Falon (Elkins Park, PA) I hadn’t been with my parents for decades at their synagogue (in a church, with Love Never Faileth on the wall above the bimah, and their newish Jewish Japanese rabbi), but I always … Continue reading

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Wednesday the Rabbi Said Kaddish

by Pamela Jay Gottfried (Atlanta, GA) Growing up, all I knew about the Kaddish was that it was recited by children whose parents were dead, thus I was absolutely forbidden from saying it.  An important tenet of folk religion –otherwise … Continue reading

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Tuesdays, With Minyan

by Mali Schantz-Feld (Seminole, FL) Minyans were for the men of my family during my childhood in Brooklyn, NY more years ago than I would like to confess. Decades later, at an egalitarian Conservative synagogue in St. Petersburg, Florida, my … Continue reading

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The Last Kaddish

by Robert J. Avrech (Los Angeles, CA) The Kaddish has been called an echo of The Book of Job. Job said: “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in him.” The Kaddish is an expression of faith on the … Continue reading

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As the sequoias

by Chaviva Edwards (Storrs, CT) The first time I went to a Conservative synagogue, I was told by a friend that when the mourner’s kaddish is recited, to stay seated unless I actually am in mourning for a lost loved … Continue reading

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