Helen Weiss Pincus

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Feb 4, 2025, 7:36 PM

You Were Right, Avi

One Shabbos afternoon, years ago in my parents’ home, when my older brother, Avi and I were home from college, lunch progressed as usual until at some point in the conversation my brother, said, in a voice to which...

Aug 9, 2024, 7:16 AM

The Month Of Redemption

The Jewish month of Nissan, in the spring, brings the holiday of Passover, commemorating the biblical redemption from Egyptian slavery. It is a month of joy. “There are no hesbedim during Nissan,” my cousin Fayge said, when she called...

Jun 18, 2024, 6:18 AM

Me, Albania and a bus stop

At a bus stop in Teaneck I was waiting for a bus to New York, calmed by the awareness that I was at the correct location at an appropriate time (turns out this was incorrect, but that’s another story)....

Jun 5, 2024, 6:40 AM

Salute to Israel Parade 2024

It was noisy, hot, crowded. Tank-like double strollers pushed thru the crowded, filled sidewalks. We bumped into old friends, new friends, reconnected with forgotten friends. We comforted overwhelmed children. We sweated, laughed, cried and sang. We stood in line...

Sep 7, 2023, 10:49 AM

Visit Italy to Prepare for the High Holidays

On a recent summer evening at a kosher restaurant in the old Jewish ghetto in Venice, Italy, 20 Jewish travelers were celebrating a birthday. In Hebrew and in English we shared a rousing chorus of traditional songs lauding the...

Nov 23, 2021, 10:37 PM

Thanks, Dad: A meditation for Father’s Day

The village of South Branch had a general store and a Dutch Reformed church. The general store was the post office, gas station, and soda fountain. On Shabbat mornings my mother, my younger brother, Nathan, and I would walk...

Oct 6, 2021, 8:43 PM

High Holidays Prep – Visit Iceland

The blast of a shofar was not a new sound to the dreamlike Icelandic landscapes I visited with Kosher Travelers – according to a thirteenth century family chronicle of life among the Viking settlers there hollowed out horns were...

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About Me

Award-winning journalist and freelance writer, Helen Weiss Pincus, has taught memoir writing and creative writing throughout the NY Metro area to senior citizens and high school students. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Record, The Link, The Jewish Standard, and other publications.