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Alia Ramer has 13 years experience parenting, combined with 15 years experience (on and off and on again) with the New Jersey Jewish News. She majored in History of Art in college, which won’t help much here, and minored in Jewish Studies, which might. Alia can be reached at tribeandjoy@njjewishnews.com
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December 1, 2010
Chanukah Fever
There are three kinds of friends: old friends, new friends, and friends we haven’t met yet. And I’ve found a sub-category of new friends: friends we’d be better friends with if we could only cross paths more often. That’s how I feel about Mama Doni. Every (rare) time we do cross paths, we have a great conversation and find we have a lot in common and we say how we should get together for coffee or lunch or something! Yet we spent this summer passing Facebook messages back and forth, trying to find a day to see each other, with no luck. It’s a busy life, this rock star business.
Here’s a Chanukah card from me to you, via Mama Doni. See if you can stop singing “gimel to the nun to the shin to the hay.” Have a very happy: may your candles burn bright, and your latkes not burn at all!