Rachel Sharansky Danziger
By Rachel Sharansky Danziger
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Community ‘Wanting to scream’: to be a Jewish Israeli mother
To be a Jewish mother in Israel is to marvel as your children play in the arenas of our ancient joys and tragedies. You watch them run through splashing pads where once the Romans marched against us, you watch them roam the valley where a young David felled a giant with a stone. You watch…
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Life In Leviticus, an unexpected lesson in surviving quarantine
Up until two weeks ago, I thought that Vayikra, Leviticus, was the least relevant – and the most alienating – of the Books of Moses. After all, why would I want to read about animal sacrifices and types of impurity? What do the endless litanies of priestly rituals have to do with my actual life?…
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