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Happy Rosh Hashanah!

September 12, 2026 by

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This message comes to you from a Jew who doesn’t go to temple, keep kosher, deliberately seek out the company of other Jews, and who doesn’t agree with most of what Israel has done. Despite all this, am I proud to be a Jew? You bet. Every human should be proud of the vast acievements […]

My grandfather smoked for 75 years. My grandchildren are doomed.

November 4, 2010 by

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  Thanks to this week’s issue of Newsweek, I now know that “epigenetic changes in sperm are carried forward transgenerationally.”  Don’t even bother to check your online dictionary.  I’ll translate (I’m a full-service blogger): If your great-grandparents or parents or you or your partner participated in a potentially damaging lifestyle (Oh, let’s say like consuming the […]

From the Desert to the Shtetl

September 10, 2010 by

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                                                                                                               My cousin Linda and I have been chasing our family history off and on for more years than I can remember.  Currently, we are “on.”  Our tree is filled with people who often had to be invisible in order to survive, and, even in death, they remain elusive in spite of our best efforts […]

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