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October 6, 2005
Family History at the Holiday Table
Reconnecting long-lost family often begins with a relative\’s random comment during a holiday gathering as generations gather around a dinner table.
A ‘Spectacular’ Summer of Inspiration
Every year during the High Holidays, my rabbi at Temple Beth Am makes an appeal for Israel Bonds to our congregation. However, this year, I suggested — and he agreed — that teenagers be the ones to inspire the congregation to support Israel.
‘Oy Vey’ Such a Sign
A traffic sign with the words, \”Leaving Brooklyn Oy Vey!\” went up on the Williamsburg Bridge from Brooklyn into Manhattan.
Wine, Women, Song
Judd\’s parents, Art and Bunnie, have been making wine in Napa Valley for 25 years, first creating the Whitehall Lane label, then Judd\’s Hill.
Lack of Jewish Life in Greece Just Myth
Poets have been known to wax lyrical about \”the glory that was Greece.\” Yet a visitor to Greece today quickly finds that the glory\’s not only in the past tense. While those who built the shrines to Zeus and Apollo are long gone, the people who inhabit modern Greece are unquestionably alive.
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