Tanya Mozias Slavin
By Tanya Mozias Slavin
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Opinion As a Soviet Jew, Yom Kippur Makes Me Feel Like An Outsider
For many years, I had my own personal tradition that I would observe on Yom Kippur. The day before, I would go to the big supermarket in our neighborhood in Southern Jerusalem and buy myself a watermelon. On the morning of Yom Kippur, I would split the watermelon in half, and declare the official beginning…
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Life How A Christian School Helped My Son Find His Judaism
When we find out that the local primary school to which we are about to send our son is affiliated with a Christian Methodist church, we begin to worry what it will do to our child’s malnourished Jewish identity. The school has a friendly atmosphere, claims to be tolerant of all religions and views, and…
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