Tag Archives: Rosh Hashanah
My New Year
by Janet Ruth Falon (Elkins Park, PA) January first doesn’t feel like my new year even though it’s time for fresh calendars, and melancholy after-Christmas sales, and bracing for icy winter, and wishing beyond, and starting from zero in Blue Cross … 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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I Never Asked
by Natalie Zellat Dyen (Huntingdon Valley, PA ) My bubba taught me to knit European style, yarn on the left. What hands had guided her hands, Which now guided mine? I never thanked her for that gift. Or for filling … Continue reading
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The Rising of the Dough
by Janet Ruth Falon (Elkins Park, PA) I’m in Cheryl’s kitchen. It’s fitting. In the nearly 17 years we’ve lived no more than a mile from each other, she’s been in my kitchen only a handful of times because she’s … Continue reading
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On Teshuvah
by Louis E. Newman (Northfield, MN) All of us at one time or another have had the experience of losing our way. Sometimes, perhaps when we’re traveling in a foreign place, we become completely disoriented. At first we think we … Continue reading
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Memories of East New York
by Joyce Halpern (Cherry Hill, NJ) Having been raised as a Jew in a gentile neighborhood, I was delighted with the vibrant Jewish community where my husband grew up. We visited his parents in this neighborhood frequently during the late … Continue reading
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