by Annette Keen
Annette Keen recalls an incident when she was 8 years
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old, on Yom Kippur 1952. Her father was a survivor from a displaced persons camp in Germany and she and her family were living in a rural community in the USA. Her father was the Cantor and he was unusually quiet and thoughtful as they set out for the Kol Nidre service. Finally he told her that he had been thinking about the past and was praying for forgiveness for leaving his father behind.
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by Annette Keen
The story of the the "Matriarch's" life and death embodies
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the history of so many Jewish American families who struggled to set themselves up in their new country and then achieved the American dream of wealth and success. But at what cost? And who will know how to say kaddish for them when they die?
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by Annette Keen
Hey! Your best years are ahead. Annette Keen shares
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her understanding of the meaning of life, and admits there is no simple potion to extend the bloom of youth, but accepts the challenges and triumphs, the love and laughter that come with the years.
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by Annette Keen
Annette Keen remembers her childhood in a Displaced
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Person Camp. “I am Joshua, Defender of Israel,” are the words spoken by a five-year old boy who helped her overcome monsters, and defend her against them, soothing away her nightmares as a child in a horrific situation. The article speaks of a childhood stolen and of affection found despite their surroundings.
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by Annette Keen
A computer doesn’t break down, it crashes. And when
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it crashes, it does so because it has been corrupted. Annette Keen tells of her experience with her crashed computer.
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by Annette Keen
We are introduced to the enigmatic “O” gene which
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allows the writer’s father a system of chaos as compared with the order of her husband and daughter who are fastidiously neat and organized.
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by Annette Keen
Through the anecdote of the death of her first pet
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the author pays tribute to her late father Cantor Irving Schock. He was a Holocaust survivor who never lost his faith and taught less by what he said and more by what he did.
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