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KOLOT: The War Comes to Tel Aviv
By Jeremy Jacobson I was unbuttoning my pants when the war came to Tel Aviv. It was just after 6:30 p.m. and I had recently returned from work and was… Read more
KOLOT: A Landsman*
By Ron Kadden As he grasped both handles of the Torah and began to recite the brachot, I felt a lump in my throat. After 83 years, my father was… Read more
KOLOT: Peddler Lady
By Charlotte “Blu” Berman If you thought that Beatrice Fox Auerbach, late CEO of G. Fox & Company in Hartford was the consummate merchandiser, you haven’t heard the story of… Read more
KOLOT: Splitting the Second
By Bonnie Thompson Enes The tiny spider resembles a crab crawls about my ceiling forages for food. Recently there was a black thing on the ceiling the size of a… Read more
KOLOT: Haiku
By Bonnie Enes 5 a.m. cat purring in my ear edge of a dream slips away cornflower blue planted in this day’s sky morning reaches into heaven on blue morning… Read more
KOLOT: Finding meaning in life through Judaism
By Cantor Mark Perman The question keeps coming up as to how we can bring people back to a more active and involved Jewish life. From my perspective it seems… Read more
Kolot: My Jewish Journey
By Lauren Simon I was raised in a house with two religions. My mother had been raised Catholic, spending K-8th grade in Catholic school. My father was Jewish, but left… Read more
Kolot: A trip down Hartford’s memory lane
By Barbara Gordon ~ On Sunday, June 24, 40 members and friends of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford took an incredible trip down memory lane. Organized by executive… Read more
Kolot: Remembering Dad on Father’s Day
By Paul Lewis ~ This is my first Father’s Day without a father. My dad died last month, just four days shy of his 87th birthday and seven years after… Read more
Kolot: Summer Morning, a poem by Bonnie Enes
By Bonnie Enes ~ Summer Morning Slow rise to this humid morning from the alabaster-white sheeted bed, slip into a tangerine robe, follow the tortoise-shell cat meows to the… Read more
