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November 2018

November 2018

Advice & Consent

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May I make a suggestion? No, really. I am seeking your consent to offer a criticism couched as helpful advice. I picked up the...
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November 2018

Dignity, Respect & Dedication

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Bonnie Curkin, the founder of Bubbe & Zayde’s Place, is no stranger to helping the elderly or to giving a voice to those who...
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November 2018

Let’s Play More

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Consider the following imagining found in the Talmud : “Rav Yehuda says, there are twelve hours in a day. The first three-hours G-d sits and...
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November 2018

Reflections on a Tattooed Jew

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I used to do a double-take if I saw a woman with “sleeves,” tattoos all the way up and down her arms. A neck...
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November 2018

Between High Holy Days and Hanukkah

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      November 2018  Open houses and celebrations highlight November By Ilene Schneider   As the Jewish calendar heads toward an early Hanukkah (still the 25th of Kislev, but early...
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November 2018

Bar Mitzvah Party Time

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Having a Bat or Bar Mitzvah is a rite of passage for the young Jewish lady or man and is rich with tradition, but...
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November 2018

Lessons in Chill

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So often we verbalize our frustration at the little inconveniences that life brings us. The car who cut us off while merging into the...
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Synergy in the Shtetl

April 2021 Ilene Schneider -
When Jewish people moved to Orange County in the 20th century, they noticed that there were no Jewish neighborhoods. There were clusters of Jewish...
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Fresh Orange Jews

April 2021 JLifeOC -
According to the Jewish calendar, we are in the month of Adar and when Adar enters, joy increases! Why is Adar the month of...
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Orange County’s Jewish History- The Orange County Doll Ladies

April 2021 Dalia Taft -
B’nai B’rith, now known as Jewish Women International (JWI), began the “Dolls for Democracy” program in 1956 in conjunction with the interfaith, interracial organization...
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Remembering the Children of the Holocaust

April 2021 Debbie Meline -
When Pavel Friedmann, a young inmate at the Terezin Concentration Camp in 1942, wrote about the last butterfly he ever saw, he described a...
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