Rachel Rubin Green is a High School teacher and an aspiring writer living in Los Angeles. She is involved in ongoing adult Jewish learning, egalitarian traditional religious practice, and spending time with her grandchildren. She is working on transforming her collection of stories of her family members escaping the Nazis into a novel for middle grade students.
Rachel Rubin-Green
By Rachel Rubin-Green
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Community Continuing the legacy of Kindertransport
In July 2019, my husband Norm and I joined several members of the Kindertransport Association on a commemorative tour of Europe for the 80th anniversary of Kindertransport. The tour was both joyous and heartbreaking, tracing the journey that my mother and 10,000 other children had taken from Nazi rule to England in the months preceding…
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Community At Limmud UK, Jewish Innovation And Insights Abound
Attending the 5-day long Limmud Festival in the U.K. was like being at a huge and diverse buffet banquet of anything and everything related to living a Jewish life. The challenge at any particularly large banquet is to choose a combination of foods that leave you feeling satisfied but not overstuffed. Even though I had…
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What is it in life that inspires or compels each of us to tell our stories? Is it the realization that we, too, have lived important historical events? Or is it something much more personal, some nugget of our experiences we want our children’s grandchildren to know? And if we have an important story that…
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