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First I would like to acknowledge the weather. The weather has been almost as moody as I am. Really hot, really cold, rainy, windy, and some days, absolutely perfect. I am not saying that I am absolutely perfect on any day, but the weather has been. Though it was so windy last Shabbos/Saturday, that three seconds after I walked by a neighborhood tree, I heard a crack, turned around, and an entire branch fell down. When I told Husband #1 how I was almost hit by a tree branch, he...Continue Reading
Last Sunday, thousands of people, many of them waving Israeli flags, lined Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for the Israel Day parade. This year, the parade’s theme was “Proud Americans, Proud Zionists.” It might well have the biggest turnout ever for the parade, which first marched up Fifth in...Continue Reading
Avraham Barzelay died on Monday, May 25. He was an extraordinary man about whom most people knew very little — because he wanted it that way. He was so allergic to bragging that it nearly silenced him. We wrote about him in October 2018. We’re rerunning that...Continue Reading
Abraham Foxman of Bergen County, the retired longtime head of the Anti-Defamation League, died on Sunday, May 10. He was 86. Mr. Foxman was a genuinely near-legendary person; it’s hard to describe him because all the superlatives are hard to believe, but they’re true. He was also the product...Continue Reading
