Tag Archives: Jewish community
The Warmth of a Familiar Blanket
By Linda K. Wertheimer (Lexington, MA) Ambivalent Jew. That was me through childhood. I knew very few Jews. For the latter half of my childhood, we were among just a handful of Jews in our small Ohio town. Sunday school … Continue reading
Filed under American Jewry, Jewish identity, Jewish writing
Finding My Place
by Mel Glenn (Brooklyn, NY) Standing outside the temple, I hesitated at the door, deciding whether I would enter for the High Holidays. “You speakin’ to me?” I asked when I thought I heard Him inside my head, beckoning me … Continue reading
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As the sequoias
by Chaviva Edwards (Storrs, CT) The first time I went to a Conservative synagogue, I was told by a friend that when the mourner’s kaddish is recited, to stay seated unless I actually am in mourning for a lost loved … Continue reading
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