The school had built up excitement [read: parent pressure] among the students, and Hodaya’s heart was set: She wanted to be Principal for the Day
The headache generally begins the week of Pesach, with The Sefirah Discussion. Sigh. Okay. It’s not a discussion. Argument, more like
We chat of summer plans, jobs, dreams, and hopes. And who we are. I find myself defending something I never thought so much about
It was obvious they were dying to know what I planned to wear, but I didn’t offer any information, and they were too polite to press me for details
We see men running, talleisim flapping after them in the wind. We run after them, to the makeshift bomb shelters set up behind the shul
What this woman didn’t know, and couldn’t possibly have known, was just how loaded her simple question was
