A writer. A teacher. Loves coffee and sushi and books. Enjoys political debates, arguing with her kids over dinner, and watching sitcoms with her husband.
(A post is making rounds on social media, in response to the Women’s March on Saturday, January 21, 2017…
I remember the exact day my daughter declared “reading is boring.” She was in first grade, I had just come home from work…
My parents fled Uzbekistan because of the rampant anti-Semitism, and took me and my brother to the United States of America. We came here as refugees and were taken in and provided for by the local Jewish Community Center.
With childlike wonder I watched the acrobats seemingly effortlessly soar above and through the stage, batons cartwheel into the ceiling, BMX bikes spiral around ramps, and wizards fall into trampolines only to be immediately ejected into the air. Poof. At the…
She was born in Kremenchug, Ukraine and her family fled to Tashkent, Uzbekistan right before the Second World War, during which she lost her brother. She received a degree in Economics and later managed a department in an economics firm. To…