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Nina was lucky to leave the Former Soviet Union in 1981. She was kindly taken in by the US and was blessed with the good fortune to raise her children here. She has recently retired from a long career in IT but not from her decades-long interest in Jewish history and culture. And Talmud.
“The weather is always good for Jewish holidays”, said my mom. She often said it in my childhood, in the...
I went to a store today,gloved and masked,as is the current custom. Approaching another customerI smiled. Behind my maskA habitual...
Yes, the times are hard, and people are getting sick and people are losing their loved ones… and dying. This is not the time for lightheartedness, it seems. But my father, who spent 10 years in GULAG, always said, “Nothing makes life better than a good joke, even under the...
When I was a little girl, my mother shielded me from the drab life in the former Soviet Union with...
