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The other day, I walked into a room and there was one of those bugs in it. You know the kind that looks like a centipede? It was orange? No? Just in my house? Anyway, because I am slightly unhinged, I yelled, “Dad, there is a scary bug — can you come and kill it please?” Now I know my dad can’t come and get it rid of it for me. But he was always the one who took care of these things. One weekend, I was on some NCSY shabbaton,...Continue Reading
When your nest is empty, you no longer have reminders of what time of year it is. No new school calendar, no need for camp registration or plans for winter vacation; aside from the change in the weather, you need to really be on top of the day and date. Unless that is just me. Also, because I was in Israel, when I got home, I knew it was mid-August, but I still thought that time stood still and there were weeks before the summer was over. And then I...Continue Reading
Andrew Kent of Tenafly, the new chair of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, is a formidably accomplished man. He hunts for challenges so he can overcome them. He changes careers not only for pragmatic reasons (and he is also deeply pragmatic) but for the opportunity...Continue Reading
Each one of us who was old enough to be sentient on September 11, 2001, has memories and stories, and connections to friends who have their own sets of stories. This is my story. It started like a not-quite-regular day because of its startling beauty. There was what many...Continue Reading
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If every person is a world, as our tradition tells us, then a city is filled with so many worlds that it’s impossible to imagine all those rubbing-together universes. That’s particularly true of Jerusalem, one of the world’s oldest cities, at just about 5,000 years old, give or...Continue Reading
