David Raphael is a non-profit consultant living in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
David Raphael
By David Raphael
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Community Meet Your Clan Members Here
Eleven years ago, barely a week after our family moved into our home in Sandy Springs, Georgia, the weekend edition of the “Atlanta Free Press” arrived at our doorstep. Tucked within its pages was a full-page ad for a Scottish festival at Stone Mountain. In oversized letters, the ad’s banner read “Meet Your Clan Members…
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Opinion The Blessing of Making Aliyah at 79
Two years ago, at age 79, my mother became an olah hadashah, a new immigrant to Israel. We moved her to live in the small apartment above my sister Ruth’s home within the Old City in Jerusalem. In the years preceding her move to Israel she had descended into the fog of Alzheimer’s disease. Her…
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