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Last Night at Dinner Howard Said

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

Howard who is maybe 92 or 93 said that he was on the bus and a woman with many shopping bags maybe she was homeless she said after he handed her five dollars sh...

food/Jews/words/Yiddish

Yiddish, or Rules

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 5 Comments

A few years ago a 13 year old boy won a Yiddish spelling bee by spelling knaidel, Yiddish for Matzoh ball. But YIVO, the official source for Yiddish words in t...

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The Mendlesteins Lived Next Door to Us at the Beach

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

Harry Mendlestein owned a hardware store in Milford, Connecticut. He and his wife Joanie and their two children and his widowed sister Lil and Lil’s daug...

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Yom Kippur is Over, and Forgiveness

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

(I’ve written many forgiveness poems. ) Forgive me because I am not usually the person I would like to be don’t take the high road oft...

holidays/Jews/Poetry/prayers/religion

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...