holidays Archives - Esther Cohen

Avinu Malkenu on Yom Kippur

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 3 Comments

To be forgiven To admit all we have done To begin again (and if you can, listen to SHULEM sing Avinu Malkenu. One day I’ll know how to Post it Her...

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Kol Nidrei

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

Sometimes I go to a service 5,000 people at the Jacob Javits Center hear Kol Nidre three times in a gigantic room on top of the Hudson River sometimes I sit o...

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Oct 3 Days of Awe Continue

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

Although it is raining although our President remains although there are floods and tornadoes even on an island in Ireland where there have never been floods an...

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A Prayer to Forgive

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 8 Comments

These days, these unholy holy days, warm, maybe too warm, these days of awe when we consider, when we think about our lives no matter what we know or believe, t...

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Going to the AZORES (3,4,5,6)

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

3 Five hour flight to San Miguel biggest island of 9. We’ll stay there this time. Watched Big Little Farm Amy Sedaris and Doctor Ruth. They all had th...

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We Are Going to the Azores Today

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 10 Comments

Dear Reader Occasional or Always of These and Other People’s Poems, We are going to the Azores today. I mispronounce these Portuguese islands 1,000 miles...