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Hollis O’Brien When the High Holy days are near, I have many mouthwatering memories of the food my grandmother used to make. One of my favorites was her stuffed cabbage. She had the time to carefully make individual stuffed cabbage olls for her appreciative family., However, these days our lives are so busy, we rarely […]

By Risè Kirbo The old mantle clock on my dresser read 9:00 PM. Only a few hours until I would pass into a new decade of my life. I was feeling impatient and restless. Frequent glances at the clock did nothing to assuage my anxiety as the time seemed to be moving in slow motion. […]

Donna Wolffe This photo is in my living room, where my pictures in needlepoint of the Chagall Jerusalem Windows are depicted. It was a ten-year project. I feel great gratitude every time I see them and live with them. These are the ways I am grateful: For the trip to Israel in 1986, where I […]

by Caron Winston As I sit at the edge of the lake and watch a family of ducks and a family of loons swim around looking for food, I think about all the people who are also looking for their next meal. Many of us are fortunate to have no worries about where our next […]

By Norm Rosen 6:30pm Friday evening on the TBS patio outside the living room: Deep dive into Shabbat evening services. The day is seasonably hot, but kindly shadows have overtaken, bringing balmy comfort. The week has been long, the days longer, and everything seemed demanding, and oh so hectic. My eyes have a life of […]

By Glenn Silverman Covid has changed everything. I’ve lived through the Cuban missile crisis, the assassination of John Kennedy, civil rights unrest, Vietnam war protests on the home front, the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr, Watergate, and 9-11. They were all traumatic, but a global pandemic – that’s historic. And I […]

By Liz Cohen When I think of the last year and a half, I am amazed at all our collective resilience. And yet sometimes I am thunderstruck by my utter lack of preparedness for an event such as a worldwide pandemic. I consider myself a well-educated person who certainly, from a historical point of view, […]

By Dan Weissberg How not to sound trite or cliche; that’s the dilemma I face as I write this short message for Echoes of Elul. How do I convey my ideas without drifting into tired rhetoric; that’s my goal. My topic is the return to our sanctuary for the High Holy Day services – our […]

By Nancy Silverman It was the end of a summer’s day and I was on the driveway with my grandchildren Jake, 7 years old, and Grace, 4 years old, shooting baskets against the backboard that hung against the garage roof. After a few minutes of play, the basketball became lodged between the roof and the […]

Barbara Swartz It has been such a busy year. What have I accomplished? Did I clean out my closets, organize my garage, read books, visit friends, and take long walks? None of the above. I stayed home. My friends know I don’t phone very often, and I am not a Facebook follower. I have always […]