Rebecca Bender
By Rebecca Bender
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Community Poem | Jewish Penicillin
you have to pass the torch the doctor said to the sole family chef who uncharacteristically was in a hospital bed instead of caring for someone else who was with the calendar marching loudly towards rosh hashana and family expectations she said, appropriately, there’s no one to pass it to but then began the same…
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News Revealing The Hidden Jews Of North Dakota
This story began in 1858 with the birth of my great-grandfather in a Russian shtetl. But the most recent chapter began six years ago at the Ashley Jewish Homesteaders Cemetery in Ashley, North Dakota. My great-grandfather, a Russian-Jewish immigrant turned first-time farmer on the Dakota plains, is buried there, along with other members of the…
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