These past few days of recovery have given me unexpected but most welcome chances for some special kinds of reading: most particularly, things I’ve read and loved in the past,…

When they said goodbye to this earth, most of my female relatives were younger than I am today! Now, I’m well into my personal 80s, which gives me both pause…

From the TJP archives, May 28, 2009, we present a classic column from Harriet Gross. Spring is only a state of mind in a year like this, with its erratic…

Age takes its toll. The losses mount. I am losing my cousins. One by one, they are leaving – not only me, but life itself. And there is a strange…

One of the essential Jewish community services that I first learned about from my late (and may I add “great” — because she really was, for me and so many…

I opened my daily paper earlier this month to read all the grief about Edgemere. I knew people years ago who lived there, and were so happy there. But that…

We’re barely through Purim, but the holidays seem to come earlier each year — at least for me, as I get later and later into my own life. Is this…

Life is very difficult for me now: As I’ve mentioned previously, I’ve become the victim of identity theft… I made my bad mistake early on: thinking I could handle this…

Those of you who know me — either from TJP reading or personal contact — must already know that my two favorite Jewish “charities” are Hebrew Free Loan and Hebrew…

This is my time to pay bills and pledges. As I sit down to write checks, an old Jewish joke comes to mind. It’s one of those “Abie and Becky”…