Julie Levey
By Julie Levey
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Culture In Dachau, Bavaria and Berlin, a Jewish prayer and declaration resonate
Traveling through Germany, a young Jew witnesses close up what she had only known from afar
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Culture In the face of a coronavirus diagnosis, a reminder of miracles
On the evening of Dec. 10, my family lit the first candle on our hanukkiah. The six of us huddled around the windowsill, watching the wick curl and the wax drip. We blessed the flame, said the Shehecheyanu prayer, and welcomed the festival of rededication, light and miracles. On Dec. 11, the day that the…
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Culture Unexodus — a story of freedom
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Julie Levey, a 12th grader at New York’s Spence School. You can find more work from our young writers here. The smell of albondigas — Sephardic meatballs with peas and artichoke hearts —…
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