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Last spring after Passover I had lunch with two friends: a convert to Judaism and a Reform rabbi. I know this sounds like the start of a joke that goes something like, “three women, a rabbi, a former-Christian, and an Continue reading Why I Stopped Freaking Out About Other People’s Kosher Habits (Published in Kveller)
I was in the midst of my first draft of an article on anti-Semitism when I got the call. Under normal circumstances when the school phone number flashes across my screen, I catch myself mentally flipping through probable scenarios: Did Continue reading How I Helped My Daughter Deal With Anti-Semitism in the Classroom (Published in Kveller)
Years ago a new neighbor asked me where we would be purchasing our tree. “We’re Jewish.” I said, assuming that no further explanation was necessary. “So?” She pressed. “So we don’t celebrate Christmas,” I said. “Why?” She insisted. Why? Because Continue reading Does It Sound Like I’m Boycotting Christmas…?! (Published by The Times of Israel)
Every year on Yom HaShoah I am haunted by my family’s history, reading countless testimonials about the Holocaust, yet I am silent about my own. I always believed that it was not my story to tell. But it is my Continue reading I Am the Granddaughter of Survivors (Featured in The Jewish Chronicle)