Tidings Blog

Co-founder and former paramedic Steve Muth, talks about NYC Medics , a small, nimble volunteer emergency medical team of paramedics and doctors based in New York City who are ready to be boots on the ground in global disaster areas within 48 hours. (WPKN March 8, 2023)

Day 48 of ’75 Days of Partition’ – Hazel Kahan’s unique family experience of the Holocaust in Germany followed by the Partition in India is unlike anything that has been written about previously. Hazel Kahan’s Jewish parents escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930’s, taking refuge in British India where they were interned for a number […]

I returned in March 2020 from a very special, very personal three-week journey to Lahore, the town of my birth. I think of it as a coda, closing a circle, a swan song and I want to share it. (Broadcast on WPKN radio, April 29, 2020 and produced by Tony Ernst.)

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There’s no such place as home! This is a personal story, based on conversations with my school friends from a very far away place and a very long ago time. Midge, Pat and I were children together at Woodstock, an international boarding school in Mussoorie in the state of Uttarakhand, 6,600 ft up in the Indian […]

Jen Marlowe, activist, author, filmmaker, talks about how she’s been raising funds for four children and youth from Gaza with whom she’s developed a close connections over the years.  This time, she asked for pledges for each mile she ran in the Palestine marathon.  You can listen here to Jen’s second appearance on Tidings.  In […]

For a few months now I have been wondering what does it feel like to be dying?  We can describe our own hunger, joy, pain, fear, excitement, fatigue, so why shouldn’t we also be able to describe our own dying? I now realize that this is an aggressive maybe even an impertinent question.  People turn […]

Poppy Johnson, assistant library director at Greenport’s 100-year old Roger Memorial Library, talks about how she and the library became what they are and what role the library plays in the community.

Tipping as seen by menus.  A frivolous companion to the more serious world of tipping world as seen by people. See the whole blog post from 2008 here.

A Picture Is Worth 25 Lives Janet Lee Berg “Rembrandt’s Shadow” Janet Lee Berg Post Hill Press, $15 In the 72 years since it ended, World War II has provided us with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of stories, a global event that has kept on giving. Just when one thinks the stories have all been […]

About Hazel

Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…

About Leafages

"Credo" statement

Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.