Mother's Day is one of those holidays. It doesn't mean much. it's Hallmarkish. It should be All Women's Day. Or All Everyone's Day. And the Mother Thing no matter what everyone tells you is Very Very Hard. Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum wrote a beautiful piece if I were more skilled (Aha) I'd put it right here dedicating it to those people whose mothering and mothers were painful and difficult. For Mother's Day I try to go to Paterson, New Jersey. It was Peter's idea years ago. Paterson, which is a complicated town of poverty, immigrants, Arabs, Latinos, and Lou Costello (really) a town of a famous poem and the old silk factory (and the famous silk strike) Paterson is a place that always makes me happy because there's a fantastic Syrian bakery there that sells my favorite Zatar bread, called NOURI BROTHERS. (Don't Miss This if you like Zatar bread). We buy olive oil from Lebanon or Jerusalem, and olives and a big big big bag of pistachio nuts and Zatar bread.
Paterson (Don't Miss This)
Paterson (Don't Miss This)
Paterson (Don't Miss This)
Mother's Day is one of those holidays. It doesn't mean much. it's Hallmarkish. It should be All Women's Day. Or All Everyone's Day. And the Mother Thing no matter what everyone tells you is Very Very Hard. Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum wrote a beautiful piece if I were more skilled (Aha) I'd put it right here dedicating it to those people whose mothering and mothers were painful and difficult. For Mother's Day I try to go to Paterson, New Jersey. It was Peter's idea years ago. Paterson, which is a complicated town of poverty, immigrants, Arabs, Latinos, and Lou Costello (really) a town of a famous poem and the old silk factory (and the famous silk strike) Paterson is a place that always makes me happy because there's a fantastic Syrian bakery there that sells my favorite Zatar bread, called NOURI BROTHERS. (Don't Miss This if you like Zatar bread). We buy olive oil from Lebanon or Jerusalem, and olives and a big big big bag of pistachio nuts and Zatar bread.