What was once mothers’ day has been recently celebrated as family day.  If you walk around Tel Aviv you can see why: Families are very important and can consist of two fathers, two mothers, one parent, but almost always children.  It’s always puzzled me because although in thinking about what I will talk about next week when I speak about Yiddish in my life, I realize how much I was involved in my parents’ lives, and always wondering if I was really related to these people.  Their foreignness was always strange to me.  But now I see families who grew up in the same country, and who value family life – that’s such a fine experience.

Because my daughter and granddaughter have corona we didn’t get together, but we had dinner on zoom. 

It’s amazing to me how so many of my friends come to Tel Aviv from abroad to meet the gay world.