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marilyn-kallet's picture
Dec.13.2012
     You can listen now to my stories from One For Each Night: Chanukah Tales and Recipes, thanks to New Letters on the Air!  And different generations of Jewish women test my recipes! Laughter and latkes--what could be bad!  (Okay, it's not Weight-Watchery, but not...
marilyn-kallet's picture
Dec.12.2012
Just heard from adorable Angela Elam at New Letters in KC, that they will put up a link to the Chanukah program tomorrow, Thursday, after noon.  www.newletters.org. You'll hear me reading Chanukah stories from One For Each Night, and four Jewish women from Kansas City--old and young--will be...
arlene-goldbard's picture
Dec.21.2011
I exchanged emails this week with a musical friend. He’d been practicing for a performance, he told me: “The Jew leads the caroling, of course.” I haven’t actually sung one of them in decades, but I too, know the words and tunes, at least to the traditional Christmas songs of my youth: “Silent...
debra-darvick's picture
Dec.08.2010
You never know when you peel that tenth pound of potatoes for Hanukkah latkes where it's all going to end up. Short term, a latke or two, still sizzling from the pan, will be snatched up by family members drawn to the kitchen by the unmistakable aroma of oil, onion, and potato. Most of those...