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About Onecakebaker

Author of a memoir called The Girl On the Wall, and working on a novel. Former Synagogue president, gardener, empty nester. Raising bees.

Honey Extraction Report

Here is how I extracted honey from the three combs Rhona and I took from the hive in my backyard.  Just so you know, you never take all the honey, just some.  There were about 20 combs in the hive, … Continue reading

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Improved Passover Apple Cake!

 I posted this apple cake recipe YEARS ago, on Blogspot, on my blog called “Melon Memories,”  which still exists, because I am a digital packrat and blogs are hard to kill. For my Seder this Pesach, I gave the recipe … Continue reading

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Striped Hamantaschen

I love to bake.  I  also used to make jewelry out of polymer clay. One year I combined the techniques of polymer clay with the recipe for my chocolate filled hamentashen, and got chocolate striped hamentaschen.I am not going to … Continue reading

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A New Year’s Day Plan

At last, a plan for New Year’s Day My New Year’s Day Party 2014 will be like my New Year’s Day Party 2013. This means that I have already planned NEXT year’s New Year’s Day Open House, and can finally … Continue reading

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Rare Torah scroll written by woman on loan to Palo Alto congregation

Torah scroll is on loan to Congregation Etz Chayim through March 4, 2013, as described in the article below, published in the San Jose Mercury News on January 29, 2013. Rare Torah scroll written by woman – San Jose Mercury … Continue reading

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Rare Torah scroll on loan to congregation

Torah scroll is on loan to Congregation Etz Chayim through March 4, 2013, as described in the article below, published in the Palo Alto Daily News on January 26, 2013. Front_Page_DailyNews

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For 2013, A Marriage Agenda – Forward.com

For 2013, A Marriage Agenda – Forward.com.   My mother shared Jane Eisner’s concerns–she pushed reproduction and liberal values, but marriage, she said, was “just a piece of paper.”  

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My post on The Giving Season on the Jewish Women’s Archive

Holiday Giving Published December 25, 2012 Today is Christmas, perhaps the ultimate holiday for giving, and I am reflecting on the act, ritualization, and commercialization of “giving.” In the past few weeks the media has been abuzz with commentary on … Continue reading

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My philanthropy problem

I support my old summer camp, Naaleh, in New York, because I had many happy years there. I  made some good friends when I was young and lived back East. I lost touch with most of these friends when I … Continue reading

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I explain the stock market to a sportswriter

I hardly knew anyone in Palo Alto in 1984. Desperate for a familiar face, I sought out an old friend who had written sports for the Barnard Bulletin when I was the features editor. She now lived in an apartment … Continue reading

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