Peoplehood I: Red Sector A
My wife and I have been accepted into the Jewish Federation’s “Peoplehood Project” of MetroWest NJ for 2012-2013. With our 50th birthdays and 25th wedding anniversary coming up, we thought this would be an appropriate way to celebrate (the trip back to Italy for the prosciutto visit is another story, and decidedly along a different [...]
Another Blog About Food, Language and Yelling
Our daughter Elana has started her gap year in Israel. She’s blogging her adventures. Combined with Skype, phone calls, and updates from the program on Facebook, give us a great view into what’s going on 6,000 miles away. Echoing the “Anatevka” scene (“You’re going to America? I have a cousin in Chicago”) that closes Fiddler [...]
Holy (Land) Breakfast
I am a creature of habit, and a good breakfast is one of those habits. Particularly when travelling, starting the day off with a solid helping of protein, fruit, something sweet and at times a kick of spiciness is your best bet for good attention, energy and focus. Sometimes it’s one bookend of a long [...]
Family Found
One of the highlights of our trip to Israel was finding my great uncle Zimel Resnick. After his death in 1971, Uncle Zimel’s body was flown to Israel for burial in a military cemetary outside of Tel Aviv, with the “Fighters of Gallipoli” from the First World War. We’ve known that he was buried in [...]