Margarita Gokun Silver
By Margarita Gokun Silver
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Culture ‘Do you remember when your classmate told you to go to the gas chambers?’ — A letter from a Soviet-born parent to her American child
Dear Eliana: Do you remember how you used to sneak into the kitchen at one or two o’clock in the morning because you were hungry and your young, growing body needed Oreos or SmartFood or a plate full of spaghetti? And how lots of times I told you this wasn’t a good idea because your…
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Life For Centuries, Spanish Jews Have Held Rosh Hashanah Seders
When Yael Cobano, the President of the Comunidad Judía Reformista de Madrid (CJRM) or the Reform Jewish Community of Madrid, planned her congregation’s potluck Rosh Hashanah dinner last year, she focused on nine ingredients. Members were asked to bring dishes that contained any of the following: Apples, honey, leeks, beets, dates, beans, squash, pomegranate, and…
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Life Catalonia’s Secret Escape Route For European Jews During The Holocaust
Mention Val d’Aran, a valley at the foot of the Pyrenees in Catalonia’s Lleida province, and most Spaniards think of winter. Popular for its access to pistes of various difficulties, the valley is peppered with ski resorts that buzz as soon as the first snow appears on the ground. Members of the Spanish Royal family…
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Opinion How Can Russian Jews Be So Naively in Love With Donald Trump?
“She is bad,” said a four-year old girl, pointing at the TV where a broadcast showed Hillary Clinton speaking to her supporters. “We don’t like her,” she continued and proceeded to dip her sushka, a Russian pretzel, into the tea my mother had made for her. The little girl is my mother’s friend. She is…
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Culture Of Trains, Tea and Translation
I’ve loved train travel ever since I was a small child. For the summer trips we made from Moscow to visit Tuapse, a town on the shore of the Black Sea where my grandparents lived, I shared a four-berth compartment with my parents. We would eat boiled eggs, tomatoes and cucumbers we had packed, discuss…
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