Finding Happiness
Aging Jewishly – What Our Traditions Tell Us about Growing Old By Rabbi Barbara Aiello Nan looked up from her Kindle and observed the man she’d been married to for over forty years. “Kurt, you’re pacing and when you’re pacing I know something’s not right.” “OK, so I’m...
The Fourth of July – a Yontiff for us Jews
By Rabbi Barbara Aiello I am a first generation American. My Italian dad came from war-weary Europe to make his way in America. He traveled with all the essentials, which in those days were two suitcases, a shopping bag and a crumpled shred of paper with the address...
Visiting Your Ancestral Village to Find Your Calabrian Roots
By Rabbi Barbara Aiello It wasn’t what they were wearing, although American tourists who visit our Calabrian mountain village are often easily identified by their shorts, sandals and fanny packs. And it wasn’t their halting Italian tinged with a distinctly American...
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