Deborah Bodin Cohen

Kickstarter Helped This Rabbi Return to Her Roots

Like so many American Jews, my greenhorn ancestors were peddlers and itinerant tradesmen. They traveled town to town, house to house, hawking their wares. On my mother’s side, one infamous cousin took odd jobs, moving westward until he settled his family on a ranch in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I can feel the blisters on his feet,…