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Befehl ist Befehl

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 10, 2021January 12, 2021

In ordinary times, the Kriyas haTorah [“Reading of the Torah”] occurs publicly in the synagogue…

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  • Beginnings

Barkis is Willing

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 3, 2021January 4, 2021

I spent many delightful hours one summer reading David Copperfield to Mrs. Vera Wardner Dougan…

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  • Poetry

Silent, upon a Peak in Darien

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 27, 2020December 27, 2020

In the summer of 1815, the poet John Keats and his friend Charles Cowden Clarke…

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  • Holidays

Amid the Ruins of All the Rest

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 20, 2020

I wasn’t with my father when he died. No one was. In his music school’s…

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  • Illness

Until It Come Out at Your Nostrils

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 13, 2020December 14, 2020

Chapter 11 of the Bible book Numbers records a plague experienced by the Hebrews on…

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  • Yiddish

An Unknown Country East of Germany

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 6, 2020December 6, 2020

The western boundary of the US State of Mississippi is defined, for the most part,…

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  • Hope

I Was Made in a Secret Place

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 29, 2020November 29, 2020

One Friday evening, some years ago, I attended services at a synagogue in Lafayette Hill,…

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  • Bible

Fond Memory Brings the Light

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 22, 2020November 25, 2020

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was an Irish poet. He was a friend and biographer of the…

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  • Literature

An Unbelievable Sound

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 15, 2020November 16, 2020

My mother was born in Hazard, Kentucky, in the United States on November 14, 1930.…

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  • Travel

By Accidents and Sagacity

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 8, 2020

In January 1754, Horace Walpole, the English writer, art historian, and politician, sent a letter…

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