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I love it when March, Adar and Purim coincide. Instead of thinking only about just Esther and Purim, I can celebrate women of valor, not just one woman of valor.
Here’s a quick challenge: how many Jewish women of achievement can you name in one minute? How many Jewish women Nobel Prize winners can you name?
Our little library has over 100 listings for biographical information about women and that doesn’t include reference books. (more…)
Captain/Cook Lynne Kurzweil led a great group of ready, willing and able volunteers, including Sarah and Charles Steindel, Leslie Billet and Linda Wieseneck.
Just a few days ago we marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day, January 27 in 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest concentration and death camp in World War II, was liberated by the Allied Forces. Over 1,000,000 people were killed there. (more…)
On a bitterly cold Tuesday, Carol and Andy Blau led the MESH volunteers in the cooking of 50 meals. (more…)
Being stuck inside because of bad weather brings out the inner cook in me. I find myself really reading the New York Times recipes— though many of them are too fussy for my taste and call for too many ingredients— and food articles and searching my cookbook library for new twists on something familiar. (more…)
