Two Purim heroines: one saves a people, one her self-respect; both offer lessons for today
Vashti refuses the king’s summons, an 1879 painting by Edwin Long. Vashti was queen of Persia and...
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Category: Marilyn Shapiro
The pest in the attic…
What lurks beneath this roof? By MARILYN SHAPIRO In October, on a miserable, windy, rainy day,...
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Coming to terms with my blue funk; Healing in Colorado
By MARILYN SHAPIRO Who would ever have thought that this Upstate New York girl who had climbed...
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Of three moose and a basketball hoop
By MARILYN SHAPIRO As we have done every year since our granddaughter, affectionately nicknamed...
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What’s this? A shul in St. Thomas?
By MARILYN SHAPIRO Under a hot tropical sun, Larry and I wound our way first along the Caribbean...
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Second generation, others strive to keep Shoah testimony alive
By MARILYN SHAPIRO I recently listened to Trudi Wolfe-Larkin and Marilyn Wolfe tell the incredible...
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New ‘Fiddler’ as politics, money torpedo our American shtetl
By MARILYN SHAPIRO A man in a red parka walks onto the stage, and intones the iconic first lines:...
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Leaving the Narrows; Living with expansiveness and new freedoms follows
BY MARILYN SHAPIRO As I write this, I am at 9100 feet in Summit County, Colo., spending time with...
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Field name change motivates foray into past injustices
BY MARILYN SHAPIRO Recently, the University of Southern California (USC) renamed the school track...
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Strategy for positive aging: Life choice to keep learning
By MARILYN SHAPIRO “What are you going to do when you retire?” As many of us edge closer to the...
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Singing, acting, stories — Mandy Patinkin is about joy — and doing mitzvahs
By MARILYN SHAPIRO “I want my gravestone to read, ‘I tried to connect,’” Mandy Patinkin said in a...
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Remembering a friend at the secular new year
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot...
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