Mom's coming to visit.
This afternoon, my mother arrives at Bozeman Airport, after a long flight from Newark. She'll be staying through Thanksgiving, and we're all looking forward to home cooked Goulash and old fashioned Matzoh Ball soup. Minna is especially excited to see her NaNa.
My Mom was born in Germany in 1931 and somehow managed to survive the Holocaust. My grandmother, Minna Friedel Cohen, was Jewish, but my grandfather, was not. He was captured early in the war and spent 5 years in a Russian POW camp. When he fianlly came home, well, things just were never the same. He left again, and my grandmother took her two girls and emmigrated to New York City, where she got a job as a hat maker and raised the girls as a single mom. She died 2 years ago, and we named our daughter after her.
My mother still doesn't know quite what to make of us living in a place as foreign to her as Montana is. We'll be working on getting her to consider moving here from Northen New Jersey.
My Mom was born in Germany in 1931 and somehow managed to survive the Holocaust. My grandmother, Minna Friedel Cohen, was Jewish, but my grandfather, was not. He was captured early in the war and spent 5 years in a Russian POW camp. When he fianlly came home, well, things just were never the same. He left again, and my grandmother took her two girls and emmigrated to New York City, where she got a job as a hat maker and raised the girls as a single mom. She died 2 years ago, and we named our daughter after her.
My mother still doesn't know quite what to make of us living in a place as foreign to her as Montana is. We'll be working on getting her to consider moving here from Northen New Jersey.
posted by Ron at 8:47 AM
2 Comments:
The whole idea of the holiday of Chanukah is about the Jews fighting assimilation. Yes that is what the holiday about. It is not about eating potato pancakes or doughnuts. That only shows a major miracle that transpired on Chanukah. The very reason for the so-called necessity for such a holiday called Chrismukkah goes against every principle of Judaism and the Holiday of Chanukah. In Judaism a marriage of a non Jew is not even recognized as a marriage at all. All it is recognized as is a sin. Thus your wonderful Holiday that you made a nice and charming websites about is celebrating a sin. What is next? The Jewish pro-pork eating website? Or the Jewish Lets all eat on Yom Kippur website? The truth is, if the mother is Jewish, the child is Jewish. The father can be a gorilla, it makes no difference. The Truth is a Christian child does not have the right to celebrate Chanukah. Yes he does not have the right. It is a spit in the face to every Jew that actually cares about Judaism. I pity you all, who celebrate it, and for the Jews that do celebrate it, I wish you all a refouah shelaymah. I know, none of you know what it means, go ask your grandmother, if she is still alive. I am sure you all made her very proud by the way. (Note, it was not an insult)
Hey, if neologician satirists can figure out a way to survive in Montana without drilling for oil or strip-mining coal there is hope for the rest of us!
Steve Lee
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