A Soup by Any Other Name Would Taste as Good
Posted by Anna Burnstein Gilette on 2/12/2021 to
Sophie has two grandmothers. Her bubbe makes her chicken soup with kreplach, carrots and parsley. Her nai nai makes her chicken soup with wontons, bamboo shoots and green onions. They both make it just like their own grandmothers did for them a long time ago...
Whoever Saves a Life
Posted by Anna Burnstein Gilette on 1/26/2021 to
Holocaust
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is January 27.
National Jewish Book Award finalist, The
Whispering Town is the perfect read for our time.
The history books tend to focus on the “big stuff,” the
events that turn our lives upside
The Most Famous Jewish Philanthropist You Never Heard Of
Posted by Anna Burnstein Gilette on 1/14/2021 to
Jewish Values
Does the name Judah Touro sound familiar? If your answer is
no, you are in good company. Judah Touro was the greatest Jewish-American
philanthropist of the 1800s, having donated huge sums of money to hospitals,
orphanages, schools, churches and
Putting Down Roots on Tu B'Shevat
Posted by Anna Burnstein Gilette on 1/7/2021 to
“Putting down roots” can mean one of two things, depending
on whether you are a plant or a person: to take nourishment from the soil
through roots, or to settle down in a particular place...
Yiddish: Not just a once-upon-a-time language
Posted by Anna Burnstein Gilette on 12/22/2020 to
For the children and grandchildren of Central and Eastern European
Jews, Yiddish is the once-upon-a-time language of the ancestors that gives
expression to centuries of culture and history.
Life for Jews in Central and Eastern Europe
What Will Your Soundtrack Be This Winter?
Posted by Anna Burnstein Gilette on 12/17/2020 to
A musician can play a song from memory,
but they likely could not recite the notes of the same song. When a musician
knows a song by heart the body and breath remember instinctively what to
do.
Today we know that
A Victory is That Much Sweeter When it Belongs to The Underdog
Posted by Anna Burnstein Gilette on 12/1/2020 to
Hanukkah is the fun Jewish holiday. Most of us associate
Hanukkah with deep-fried foods like potato latkes and sufganiyot, parties with
friends and family, playing dreidel and opening gifts. These are traditions
whose origins, interestingly,
An Iron Lady from Humble Origins: A Lesson in Courage
Posted by Anna Burnstein Gilette on 11/20/2020 to
In 1898 Goldie Mabovitch was born in Kiev, Ukraine. One of Goldie’s
first childhood memories was watching her father board up their home in fear
that a pogrom would soon be on their doorstep. It is hard to imagine such an
experience through the