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A Manifesto for Invisible Women: Numbers too big to ignore

I am woman hear me roar in numbers too big to ignore If you’re old enough to remember those words, you’ll get this. And you should read it even if you’re not. Whether you fear it, lie about it or celebrate it, the number 50 seems way too big to ignore. Yet, ironically the opposite […]

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A love letter to the Graduate

All those clichés about love: Love at first sight All you need is Love You complete me I thought I understood —but everything changed in a heartbeat—hers. And to think I almost didn’t sign up for this.  It took over 30 years and a 6-week class at UCLA to decide I wanted to be a […]

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They call her Tiger Mother, but will they call home?

She says she’s a tiger— but oy, what a cat-fight. Amy Chua unleashed an uproar over her book with its controversial theories on parenting—and she’s under attack everywhere —-even Joan Rivers gets into the act. I haven’t read the book yet.  Still, it’s hard for me to stay out of this. Watching the debate about […]

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Home Land

No matter where you go or how long you’re gone or how much you love being away, it always feels great to land at Home. Because Home is where the heart is. Which also applies when I turn the words around–to the  Jewish Homeland . I felt at home from the minute I landed — […]

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past proof

A visit with Mary to the old city of Jerusalem—-brought a sense of deja vu, a lesson in memory loss, and proof that the world works in mysterious ways. Last week on the day I left, I wrote a post about my first trip to Israel 40 years ago : You could see I had […]

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Piece in the Middle East

A piece of me was in Israel even before I got here—a cookie jar I made after I survived cancer that survived Mary’s move here 7 years ago. A few days before  I came to visit,  Mary asked if I would show her how to do mosaics—by the time I arrived this evolved into a […]

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