Tag: new year
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In the New Year 5785
A year ago today I was awake at 2 am when news started appearing on my social feeds about October 7th and what was happening in Israel. I was awake at 2 am because I was on a girls’ trip weekend with my best lifelong friends. In 365 days two of those women have since… Read more
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Rosh Hashanah Writing
Writing sometimes feels like the High Holy Days in Judaism (Rosh Hashanah – the Jewish new year, and Yom Kippur – the day of atonement). Writing, just like the holidays, is something I have to fit in around “work” and the wider expectations of a society that doesn’t recognize the meaning of the act or the… Read more
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The Jewish New Year on Zoom
Waiting for the moment you are allowed to sit down during a Yom Kippur zoom service highlights how much we depend on one another for our customs, cues, and daily actions. Without the old guard sitting down around me I’m very alone and don’t always know what to do, when to rise and when to… Read more