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Back to school. I never really thought about that phrase before. It was an assumed rite of passage; every year going to get school supplies. Complaining about how many pencils were required to be sharpened and those ridiculous marble notebooks that were never used, or only used twice throughout the year. While cleaning out Son #2’s “stuff,” I found so many of those notebooks with only a few pages filled out. Was it because Son #2 didn’t listen to the teacher and didn’t do the assignments or was it because the...Continue Reading
If every person is a world, as our tradition tells us, then a city is filled with so many worlds that it’s impossible to imagine all those rubbing-together universes. That’s particularly true of Jerusalem, one of the world’s oldest cities, at just about 5,000 years old, give or...Continue Reading
Time moves in only one direction. Forward. And the more of it you’ve lived through, the faster it seems to move. (Being a kid lasts for an eternity, high school takes nearly forever, college, well, not so long, and after that, whoooosssh….) So maybe it makes sense that...Continue Reading
Think of Ladino as a kind of unmelting snowball, rolling from country to country, picking up more words, more quirks, more resilience — more color — as it goes. Often it rests, then it takes off again. Ladino, the language of Sephardi Jews, began in Spain, with the...Continue Reading
To walk into 81 Leonard Gallery in lower Manhattan is to be overwhelmed by the color. Huge pieces of art, with enormous expanses of bright color. It’s not intimidating, it’s not off-putting, and most certainly it is not saccharine. It’s immersive. It’s encompassing. It makes you want to...Continue Reading
