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Driving Louella — “Necessary Stories” column from The Jerusalem Report

April 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Culture and Ideas

Haim Watzman Thanks to the editors at the Jerusalem Report for permitting me to post this before the current issue reaches subscribers, so that you can read this story before Pesach. This is the story I tell my family every Seder night. When I was about two years old, soon after my little brother Saul [...]

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Aunt Bernice–”Necessary Stories” column from The Jerusalem Report

March 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Culture and Ideas

Haim Watzman My earliest memory: I am in the kitchen of our ranch house in Euclid, Ohio on a hot summer afternoon. My Aunt Bernice, wearing the largest, warmest, smile in my entire universe, has driven her snazzy scarlet and pearl-white Nash Metropolitan convertible over for a visit. She and my mother look remarkably alike, [...]

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