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Category: Life and Death

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Chesray’s Aunt Shiela Died of Covid in South Africa (COVID)

Posted on December 24, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 8 Comments

Unfathomable number of people died of COVID this year  Chesray’s Auntie died yesterday in South Africa and we are far away remembering her at the airport ...

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Meyer Cohen (COVID)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

In the process of looking for information about my father, Meyer Cohen, a rabbinic man, cautious, with long white fingers and a slow smile, a man with a dry sen...

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Lisa Tells Me What to Watch (COVID)

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

She sees everything and texts me her suggestions and I who am not very media savvy use a pen to write them down. Watch Wendy’s Shabbat a short on POV she ...

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Sandy Kadet (COVID)

Posted on October 15, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 3 Comments

When a good friend dies you want to do what the friend would want  no one wants their friends standing around   Riverside Funeral Home whole place looks like th...

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Ruth Bader Ginsberg (COVID)

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 4 Comments

We say those who die on Rosh Hashanah are tzaddiks. Wise holy righteous people whose wisdom continues  to get us through this impossible time and we know that R...

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My Mother’s Birthday (COVID)

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

She would have been over 100. Never told us her age.  Neither did her mother, Yiddish speaker named Anna from Roumania,  who lived in Beverly Hills with my Uncl...

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