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This is my first Mother’s Day without my mom. She died late last summer. “Are you dreading Mother’s Day?” I have been asked many times. “Not at all,” has been my reply.
When my family gets together, they love to talk about their …
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BETSY ALPER, LICSW
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4/23/15
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“82 Ways to Tell Mom You Love Her.” “Don’t Forget about Mom!” “Tell Your Mother You Love Her.” “Make Sure Mom Gets the Message.”
This year, the first of about a thousand emails reminding me to call, appreciate and buy stuff for …
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Esther D. Kustanowitz
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4/23/15
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From Mothers’ Day to Mother’s Day
In the 1850s, Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis started holding Mothers’ Day work clubs throughout West Virginia as a way for mourning women to remember fallen soldiers. The groups tended to wounded soldiers …
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STEPHANIE ROSS
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4/23/15
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Shana Maydel has moved away from the two most important women in her life – her mom and her grandma. The separation took some chutzpah and a lot of convincing. The two simply didn’t want to let her go. However, the one strong argument Shana used …
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Irina Missiuro
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4/23/15
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In the 1970s, the popular band Peaches and Herb released a song “Reunited.” If you love the song, as I do, it’s easy to understand why it has become my anthem of choice for two women I love.
The story goes like this. After the shocking …
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SUSAN BAZAR
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4/23/15
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At the age of 10, Anya Von Bremzen and her mother, Larisa Frumkin, immigrated to the United States from the former Soviet Union, settling in Philadelphia in 1974. To taste the American dream, they had to make sacrifices and fudge the truth. Frumkin, …
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Irina Missiuro
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4/23/15
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NEW YORK (JTA) – It promises a revolutionary innovation that could transform Jewish Shabbat observance.
By changing the way a light switch works, the patented Kosher Switch offers a novel – and its backers say, kosher – way …
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Uriel Heilman
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4/23/15
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JTA – Israel may be the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, but it is also one of the world’s least religious nations, according to a new poll.
The WIN/Gallup poll of 63,898 residents in 65 countries found that 65 percent of Israelis …
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4/23/15
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – An Israeli startup company that creates music education technology has raised $5 million in new funding.
Tonara raised the funding from Baidu, the maker of China’s leading search engine, and Israel-based Carmel Ventures, a …
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4/23/15
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Women of the Wall for the first time read from a full-size Torah scroll during the group’s monthly prayer service at the Western Wall, contravening regulations there.
The Torah scroll, one of 100 available for public use on …
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4/23/15
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