There is no doubt that my mother was a hoarder. It was difficult for her to part with anything. As I reach the tender age of 70, I realize that I have inherited some of my mother’s bad habits.
“The Jewish Dog,” a novel by Asher Kravitz and translated from Hebrew by Michal Kessler, does not disappoint.
“Honor” is the most recent novel by best-selling author Thrity Umrigar.
As we watched from our windows, it looked like one of the ten plagues was being repeated right on our front lawns.
When I first started reading “Button Man” by Andrew Gross, a historical novel loosely based on the life story of Gross’s grandfather, I couldn’t help but think of my own father.
As a Canadian who loves America, it pains me to see what is happening south of the border.
Almost everyone knows those actors of the 1950’s and 60’s who rose to fame and fortune on Broadway, on the silver screen and on network television.
Maître Moghrabi, who passed away recently at the age of 94, was a prominent and well-connected lawyer in the city that was once called “the Paris of the Middle East”.
Thank you, Jackie Mason, for all the wonderful memories and the great punch lines.
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