Oneg Shabbos
“Every time your wife feels a headache coming on, tell her to take a candy, make a brachah with kavanah, and the pain will go away immediately”
LifeLines
I remember sitting at the Seder table with my husband, Yehoshua, that year and exclaiming, “I can’t believe it! Our first Pesach, and we’re all alone!”
Shared Space
“Listen Kivi, this will be whatever you make of it, it’s an opportunity and you have to decide whether to grab it”
Normal Like Me
“My children will not go to school. We don’t need school,” he kept saying. “The white man has nothing to teach us”
On the House
There’s nothing wrong with adding a sushi bar, and other things, but you do realize that our hottest menu items were traditional, old-fashioned foods
Center Stage
She looked so beautiful when she smiled like that. With an actual sparkle in her eyes. Why didn’t she do so more often?
Map the Starlight
In the center is Jerusalem, with a verse from Psalms: “Joy of the world.” He takes a breath. It is exquisite
Family Diary
The chassan-kallah relationship is so fragile in the beginning, and that first piece of jewelry seems to be more significant than the Duchess of Windsor’s whole collection
Windows
When you’re not thinking about it, there’s restlessness and emptiness in your being. You turn the music up loud just to feel something beat in you
Fiction
This is a good chance to test out her teacher’s concerns. I watch her closely for signs of not hearing, or misunderstanding, as I launch into storyteller mode
