The most remarkable thing of all was how much he looked like my father. Not like my father during those last three months, when his skin hung from his face, gray and translucent – more like the way my father looked a few years earlier, with his round face, his
This year, our remembrance of the terrible tragedy of 9/11 falls eerily during the Yamin Noraim, the Days of Awe between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. This unusual timing gives us a chance to pause and consider this occasion at a most solemn time of year
Walking the dozen blocks to work through Manhattan, there was an eerie quiet on the street. Even the kids bounding to P.S. 116, the nearby public school, seemed subdued… or maybe it was just in my mind.
Overnight, an enormous American flag was hung in the
The grief of the past few days has been unimaginable. Many of us are torn between watching and listening to the 24/7 onslaught of media coverage and the desire to turn off everything imaginable and run away into a world where horrific events could never ever
Originally posted on November 10, 2010 at Kim's Little Blog.
My mother died, and she wasn’t Jewish. I am, and sometime after I converted, it occurred to me to wonder, “Will I sit when my mom passes away?" The word shiva comes from the Hebrew word for
In the summer after the tragedy of September 11th, my family visited Stone Mountain Geogia for the incredible laser show. I remember three songs from that show – one was Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind", the second was The Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil
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