Articles

  • 1 week ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Banji Ganchrow

    The Greenhouse effect. Global warming. Melting ice caps. Fossil fuels. The generation that is destroying the environment. Honestly and apologetically, I don’t understand any of it. I have not done any research on it, and, well, again apologetically, I don’t get it. What I do get is that Memorial Day weekend used to be the kick-off to summer festivities. Lounging by someone else’s pool, mooching off someone else’s barbecue…apparently, it might not exactly have been the case this past weekend.

  • 2 weeks ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Banji Ganchrow

    After marrying Husband #1, I learned all about coupons and refunds, about not turning on the heat until your lips turn blue and not turning on the air conditioning until you see steam rising from the carpet, about fighting erroneous credit card charges, and getting your money back if you aren’t happy with something. I am not proud, well, actually, sometimes I am proud.

  • 3 weeks ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Banji Ganchrow

    Another Mother’s Day in the books. Son #1 got me a great card and signed everyone’s name. DIL#2 had picked out a gift for me months ago and put a “reminder” on it so she would remember to get it for me. She looped my other daughters-in-law in, and it was a really beautiful and thoughtful gift. I really do love my girls. I got to zoom with Danish and her sister and their mom. Danish kept saying, “Babka you come to door in new house?

  • 1 month ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Banji Ganchrow

    Happy Mother’s Day! For this special day that my Oreos no longer celebrate, whatever, I asked Husband #1 if I would be able to write a column exclusively written to make fun of him. That would be my gift to myself from myself. Honestly, he is not so onboard. And my response is, if you aren’t so onboard, you shouldn’t do things that I want to make fun of in the first place. Tell me, folks, am I the only one who feels this way? Do you all live with people who know how to react to a household issue?

  • 1 month ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Banji Ganchrow

    The famous and true saying is that man plans and God laughs. And though we believe that God is in control all the time, sometimes He does things for us — both good and bad — that let us know who is in charge. And it isn’t us. We can think there are things that we can control, but in reality, it isn’t true. For three weeks I had the privilege and pleasure of hosting my Israeli cutie pies. We were at my home for some of the nights, we were in a hotel for some of the nights, and it was all wonderful.