Happy Father’s Day!

Today marks the sixty-fifth celebration of Fatherā€™s Day for my dad. Coincidentally, my older brother just turned sixty-five last month. Unfortunately, Dad left this world after his forty-sixth Fatherā€™s Day.


One of the joys I had in putting together ā€œHoliday Biblical Characters: Finding My Stories in the Stories of Christmas and Easterā€ was adding Motherā€™s Day and Fatherā€™s day stories to the collection. Hereā€™s an excerpt from ā€œA Tribute to My Number One Hero ā€“ My Dad,ā€ referencing Jewish heroes for Peter, John, James, and the rest of the twelve.
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