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Mother’s Day
Rhea Kohan: No one spits in her kids’ Kasha
Danielle Berrin
May 4, 2011
Sunday afternoon at the Kohan home is one of those classic portraits of familial bliss: Children are screaming, singing and scurrying about, clamoring for attention, eager to play, while the adults assembled in the kitchen are trying to have a coherent conversation. Clearly, a tall order.
Mystery Mother of Long Ago
Jewish Journal
May 5, 2010
I wonder who she was. My “Common Female Ancestor,” as she was called in the write-up that came with the results of the DNA test I took. We all have one, this mother from another time, or we would not be here today.
My Mother’s Daughter
Jewish Journal
May 5, 2010
As an adjunct professor teaching four writing classes, I’m flooded with student papers. In one of my classes, an outspoken student looked at a tower of students’ essays on the edge of my desk and said, “I’d rather wash floors than have your job.”
The Gift
Jewish Journal
May 6, 2009
We stood beneath a big tree, me holding her in my arms. Many hours had gone by, and still I had not told her. I did not tell her when I found him, ashy gray, on the bedroom floor the day before, when she called out, “Mommy, why are you screaming?”
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