For Passover Passover is the Jewish Holiday celebrating Freedom from Slavery in Egypt and the idea of liberation. Passover includes the retelling of the history of the Jewish exodus from Egypt. The history is read with family and friends around the dinner table. It is followed by a wonderful meal. At the end of...
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Nour’s Geese Not Ducks at All Several months ago, we sat in the Florida room chatting, when we were drawn outside by a new sound. The ducks, which have the run of the park, lake, and our collective yards, were in a bit of a huff. We walked outside, and much to...
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The Jews of Spain A History of the Sephardic Experience By Jane S. Gerber “As apparent to these observers and indeed all visitors, a brilliant era was dawning in Spain. Forever afterward, the tenth and eleventh centuries would be remembered by Jews as the nation’s ‘Golden Age,’ an epoch in which they enjoyed unusual...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ The Seine at Asnieres by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (1841-1919), was a French painter, and contemporary of Monet, with whom he worked, to birth the Impressionist movement, in art. Renoir was not only...
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Subject: Unworthy of a Single Thought The words were cold, cruel, and bitter; nevertheless I read them again, I had to. One more time, from the beginning – I had to see beyond what they said and focus on what they meant. There was comfort to be had in their hatred. I would never...
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself, but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer defeat.” ~ Sun Tsu ~ The Art of War Nuclear Energy Part II Mid-afternoon, on March 11, 2011,...
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A View of The Ocean in Puerto Rico Emerald and azure dreamily intermingle with crashing white caps, and endless skies, the view from a road in Puerto Rico.
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Carrot Cake This has become one of my signature cakes. I have had more people request this cake, than any other sweet, that I make. I first made this for my Mother, as her birthday cake, and if we are together, for her birthday, I still make it – something to bear in mind,...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ The Shepherd’s Song by Pierre Puvis De Chavannes I am not usually drawn to such muted tones or the stillness of the subjects, in this painting, but I find this work rather...
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Walking In Paris by Anne Sexton I come back to your youth, my Nana, as if I might clean off the mad woman you became, withered and constipated, howling into your own earphone. I come, in middle age, to find you at twenty in high hair and long Victorian skirts trudging shanks’ mare fifteen...
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