Sharon Packer
By Sharon Packer
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Forverts in English The Holocaust survivor in the typewriter repair shop
It wasn’t the sad smile or the stained apron that made me remember him so well. It was the tattoo on his forearm.
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Community Remember Thanksgivvukah? This year, let’s try Shabbosgiving
Chances are, you have never heard of Shabbosgiving. It is likely that no one near you ever made mention of Challoween either, which is my own personal mash-up of Halloween, Jewish-style. Yet everyone probably knows about Thanksgivukkah, which entered the lexicon in 2013, when Hanukkah and Thanksgiving coincided. That coincidence last occurred in 1888 and…
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