Kyla Kupferstein Torres
By Kyla Kupferstein Torres
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Yiddish World A Yiddish word I never expected to see on a license plate
For secular Jewish socialists in prewar Poland, 'doikayt' wasn't just a word, but a bold political statement
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Yiddish World ‘I’m not religious, but my 10-year-old wants to go to synagogue — what should I do?’
Before taking her 10-year-old to his first Yom Kippur service, Kyla Kupferstein thought, ‘What if he likes it?’
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Yiddish World Giving my son a bris, even though my father wouldn’t have approved
Knowing how religion could separate people made my father find all faiths ridiculous at best, evil at worst.
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Yiddish World Growing up, as a biracial child, with survivor grandparents
Kyla Kupferstein Torres, whose mother was Black Jamaican, describes how her father's parents helped form her Jewish identity
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