November 20, 2016 – Erris Speaks

Thanks, But Please Don’t Tell Me How to Celebrate Thanksgiving (Published in The Times of Israel)

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Erris Langer Klapper

Sometimes I wish I could put in earplugs while standing in line at the grocery store. Perhaps if the lines were shorter, I’d zip through unscathed. The other day I just couldn’t help overhearing the guy in front of me Continue reading Thanks, But Please Don’t Tell Me How to Celebrate Thanksgiving (Published in The Times of Israel)→

Heidi Pantanowitz: As always, so well written. Thank you Erris. You say the things that NEED to be said....

Alicia: I love this and am so happy to personally know the key players in the article 💚...

Julie: Well said Erris. This is personal as you know. My son lives just miles from the Gaza Strip....

frank gutowski: With all due respect, and I have a lot of that for you, we do not look to other countries for the standard because...

Linda: Well said Erris!! It's time to come together as a country to solve this problem before another mass school shooting...

Ellis Shuman: I'm not sure if we should have expected anything else from a country where antisemitism has been part of the norm f...

Nieli Langer: Well stated, balanced statement. We can’t forget and forgive but the world continually does. It’s an old Jewish...

frank gutowski: Yesterday the UN vote proved, with all certainty, the uselessness of that organization. How alone Israel must have ...

frank gutowski: Erris, your words come from the heart and are welcome food for my own mind that continues to be overrun by so much ...

nieli langer: OUTSTANDING! I am sorry that this is an issue in our times. Great analysis......

frank gutowski: Great piece... but "Well... let me tell you a thing or two missy!" Popped up in a balloon above this old vets hea...

Ellis Shuman: This article brought me back to my own visit to Cordoba, many years ago. (It was also very hot that day). Thanks fo...

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frank gutowski: I never thought about it. It's a question I would never dream of asking. Perhaps because I know you but more so b...

Ken Eisner: Once again, Erris nails it! How can we not give our kids that experience? I felt less angst when my youngest daught...

Orli Langer: Restaurants are not the only places where restrictions are needed..... movie theaters??...

frank gutowski: This is #discrimination fall out is the expected collateral damage we can expect as a result of turning everything ...

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Ken Eisner: So true! I remember several years ago, my mother was in the hospital for Thanksgiving. Trying to cook a turkey or e...

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Orli: It is often said that those that feel the worst about themselves feel the need to belittle others. How sad it is, t...