I spent the holidays in several different places this year. This is what happens when your family is scattered.
I am thankful that I can visit them now since my home has been the base …
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Fran Ostendorf
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10/16/17
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Connectivity is a fact of modern life. We have our televisions, our computers and, most of all, we have our cellphones.
Surely you have noticed as you walk down Hope Street or Elmgrove …
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Fran Ostendorf
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9/25/17
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The temperatures have started to drop already. The last few days of August were unusually cool. Clearly summer is on the wane. In the Jewish calendar, we’ve reached Elul, which is the month of …
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Fran Ostendorf
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9/7/17
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It’s hard to know what to make of national and world events since the last Jewish Voice was published.
Barcelona, Charlottesville, Turku, Boston.
How can I lump these together? Taken …
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Fran Ostendorf
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8/24/17
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What have you been doing this summer? Many people have been traveling. I know that from the photos we’ve received showing smiling readers holding copies of The Jewish Voice. We love those …
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Fran Ostendorf
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8/10/17
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You know who we are, but do we know who you are?
Some of you contact us frequently. But we wanted to know more. And our existing data was old. We’d done some surveys in the past, but they …
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Fran Ostendorf
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6/23/17
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Remember when this time of year made you all tingly in anticipation?
School was ending.
Camp was starting.
You were another year closer to graduation.
A whole summer loomed …
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Fran Ostendorf
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6/9/17
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We love our pets. And many of our readers love their furry friends enough to want to see their photos in the paper.
The annual pet section in this issue features all the pet photos that …
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Fran Ostendorf
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5/25/17
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Those pesky envelopes are back. Perhaps one fell out of your newspaper when you opened it to read this column.
If you’ve been reading us for a while, you know that the envelope …
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Fran Ostendorf
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5/11/17
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A couple of years ago, I wrote about spring cleaning at about this time of year.
Actually, when I looked back, the column was mostly about postponing spring cleaning, with a little history …
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Fran Ostendorf
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4/27/17
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