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Sep 15, 2024, 4:14 PM
Arrivals
I’m fully aware of the many serious problems facing this small nation. But, please don’t trivialize the one that I’m going to address here and now. It’s life threatening too although it’s not our enemies who are pursuing us and our very existence. It’s our...
Mar 24, 2023, 5:46 AM
Yosef and Chana, Unlikely Friends
It’s pretty safe to say that you can predict the kinds of people you, or I, would like to have as friends. In my case it would be an elder, definitely someone over 70, a serious Jew, and a politically liberal strong supporter of Israel....
Mar 16, 2023, 8:45 PM
Pukh, a Gift
The Little Bubba, my husband’s maternal grandmother, was no more than 4’8” tall and weighed about 85 pounds. Her diminutive size belied her strong and feisty personality. She was smart and tough, descended from a prominent rabbinical family, she was a force to be reckoned...
Mar 14, 2023, 5:02 PM
Nightmares
I just hung up the phone from my little sister, age 80. Our Sunday conversations are pretty routine by now. I ask her if she went to the demonstration in Herzliya last night. She answers in the affirmative. I ask her if there’s any diminution...
Mar 3, 2023, 4:33 AM
Counting the Seders
If this were a contest I’d surely be a contender for first place! How many seders have you attended? Over 70? A minor accomplishment indeed. I’ve been attending seders since infancy. At two a year that would be coming up on to 166! But for...
Feb 22, 2023, 10:02 PM
A Wedding in Brooklyn
I write this on the 86th anniversary of the marriage of Samuel Litwak and Ida Bauman. The catering hall which hosted the wedding still stands on Willoughby Avenue in Brooklyn, right around the corner from the bride’s family residence on Vernon Avenue. Called the Gold...
Feb 15, 2023, 6:47 PM
Pox
Right above my nose, evenly spaced between my eyes, is a familiar sight, my very own chicken pox scar. Trust me that I acquired it in the typical way by doing exactly what my mother told me not to. I scratched, and the results of...
Feb 9, 2023, 11:45 PM
Remembering Miller Street
Teaching is a sacred profession, every bit as essential as rabbis caring for the soul, or medical personnel caring for the body. The teachers we fondly remember nurtured us, shared with us, and, in a spirit of love and respect brought us the understanding we...
Feb 3, 2023, 7:49 AM
Grim Report from a News Junkie
Diary of a news junkie: Being homebound with the flu for almost two weeks gave me plenty of opportunity to read, digest, analyze, and be ashamed of our country, these very Un-united States, and somewhere else as well. Congress is a real woe is me....
Jan 20, 2023, 6:30 AM
The Road to Parksville
When January arrived with its brisk cold weather embracing Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Newark, in a deep cold hug, my mother’s thoughts and plans would turn to summer. It was time for the postcards, time to remind the regular tenants that they needed to...
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Rosanne Skopp is a wife, mother of four, grandmother of fourteen, and great-grandmother of three. She is a graduate of Rutgers University and travels back and forth between homes in New Jersey and Israel. She is currently writing a family history.
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