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Reckoning With Reality; Standing Up For Our Future

By Rachel Sharansky Danziger | February 28, 2022

My sister and I were born in the wake of a historic triumph. My father, Natan Sharansky, was arrested by…

My Story of Sexual Abuse

By Rachel Cohen | January 26, 2022

It’s time to tell my story of sexual abuse.  I’ll be honest, I’m absolutely terrified right now. Scared out of…

In the Eye of the Storm

By Shira Lankin Sheps | January 10, 2021

My father is in the hospital sick with COVID.  It has been many months since words like “coronavirus” “quarantine” and…

My Conversion Journey

By Kylie Ora Lobell | December 17, 2020

I’m standing in front of the Jewish ritual bath, the mikvah, wearing only a white cotton robe and clear plastic…

Son of My Strength

By Carly Chodosh | September 24, 2020

A  few months ago, at 8:14 PM on Shabbos Shlach, my baby was born and I announced, “It’s a boy!!”…

Just Two More Days To Go

By Andi Saitowitz | September 15, 2020

“Just two more days to go” That’s what my handwritten countdown hanging proudly on my wall reminds me this morning…

“What’s the Big Deal?”

By Anonymous | August 4, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone.  Some physically, some financially, many, if not most, emotionally.  Each one of us typically…

Enough, For Now

By Shira Lankin Sheps | July 14, 2020

I’ve been trying to make sense of the time period that we are living in right now.  We have been…

Shomea V’Oneh

By Nisa Harris | June 24, 2020

When my father was diagnosed with cancer this year, despite the fact that I was someone you would rarely find…

The Waiting Game Called Infertility

By Tamar Ben Tzvi | June 16, 2020

After twenty months of waiting to conceive our child, we have not even begun medical treatment yet.  For many, this…

Educating Our Kids Around Race

By Chava Shervington | June 10, 2020

Friends have been asking me, “How can we better educate our children around issues of race?”  As a Jewish black…

How Does It Feel?

By Zehava Arky | June 4, 2020

How did it feel to grow up Black in America? I felt annoyed. I was asked, “Why do you speak…