by Hanna Perlstein Marcus | Jun 26, 2020
I am so grateful to be honored by the Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA) as one of four honorees, who are school alumni, to help celebrate their 75th year as a school. The virtual celebration will be on Monday, June 29 at 7:30pm at www.lya.org. I happen to be the...
by Hanna Perlstein Marcus | May 10, 2020
My mother died on Mother’s Day, that second Sunday in May when we Americans celebrate motherhood by paying homage to the women who sacrifice so much for the sake of their children. That’s how my first book in the Sidonia trilogy, Sidonia’s Thread...
by Hanna Perlstein Marcus | Apr 20, 2020
Facebook Twitter Tonight, April 20, marks the start of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. It has been 75 years since the end of WWII and the liberation of Holocaust survivors #Liberation75, #ctvoicesofhope, #allgenerations. Sidonia’s Thread is one of the...
by Hanna Perlstein Marcus | Apr 10, 2020
My Aunt Margit, the sister my mother never knew, died as an adolescent, a victim of the Swine Flu pandemic of 1918. Margit was the cleverest and most studious of Simon and Hani’s six children and warranted enrollment in advanced studies in the nearby large city, an...
by Hanna Perlstein Marcus | Mar 12, 2020
Facebook Twitter Sure, this past Sunday was International Women’s Day, but shouldn’t we celebrate women every day? Isn’t it women who provide the tempering hand to men to sometimes prevent their rash decisions? Isn’t it women who have the skill and level-headedness to...
