Linda K. Wertheimer
By Linda K. Wertheimer
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Culture Are Mitzvah Days An Excuse To Stay Away?
As I raced through scales to warm up my piccolo, an old man with an oxygen tube in his nose smiled at me. “I love the piccolo,” he said. The man, a retired congregational rabbi, sat front row center in the social hall of an assisted living home, as a handful of members from my…
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News Dynamic Leader Puts Oomph Back in Brandeis
‘Fred, President Fred!” a gaggle of upperclassmen shouted as the president of Brandeis University, Frederick Lawrence, strode down the stairs and onto the floor of the university’s basketball arena. The students, clad in shorts and yellow orientation leader T-shirts, cheered and applauded when Lawrence stopped to chat. Lawrence, due in just minutes to deliver a…
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Life Facing Down Infertility — With the Help of Graphic Art, Immersion
Her eyes twinkling behind oval glasses, author Phoebe Potts led seven of us into the kitchen of the education center at a suburban Boston community mikveh. She lit a piece of paper on fire in the sink, and then urged us one at a time to toss our slips of paper into the flame. On…
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News No Synagogues, Please
Time for “our big deal,” the 22-year-old instructor shouted inside the suburban Boston My Gym play space. “It’s space flights!” Asher Misiph, an 18-month-old, grinned with glee as he “flew” in a plastic blue airplane across a zip line and back, with a hand from the peppy instructor. It was almost sunset on a Friday…
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Opinion In Shul, Cost Hasn’t Been a Barrier
There had to be a catch — and a price tag. A rabbi left a message on my home answering machine inviting me to join an adult bat mitzvah class. But I was not a member of this rabbi’s suburban Boston synagogue. Intrigued, I returned the call. At 40, after spending the majority of my…
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