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After 13 years, why couldn’t her parents come to terms with the fact that they’d chosen to make their lives in Eretz Yisrael?

“I come here a lot on Sundays. It’s a great place to think about what I want from life — and what I don’t want from it”

“Papa, right now Annie can’t help anyone. She’s got to take care of herself — and the baby she’s expecting.”

It was easy to spout values like “chesed starts at home” when you didn’t have a distressed woman in the hospital begging you to come help her.

Are you worried that donors will find out and think this was tzedakah money being used?

“Mama, Yoel says things are getting a little out of control there.”