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Elderly Danish Jews relive the night they were rowed to safety 
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Me? I thought, hesitant. Who am I to write a book about the Tannaim and Amoraim?
Rabbi Nosson Wiggins
50 Reasons
We didn’t think to write it all down — what they’d been like before the war, the people and places they longed for, even decades later I   don’t know who came to my grandparents’ wedding. I know that their parents, and most of their siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends were not there. My
Ariella Stern
50 Reasons
We didn’t think to write it all down — what they’d been like before the war, the people and places they longed for, even decades later I   don’t know who came to my grandparents’ wedding. I know that their parents, and most of their siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends were not there. My
Ariella Stern
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Waitressing required a completely different skill set than passing AP exams and Regents
Barbara Bensoussan
I of the Storm
I pinched myself. Could it be that the entire Shafer crew is cooperating, smiling — and genuinely happy? Could it be that our family portrait is not a complete farce?
Ilana Shafer
I of the Storm
So I’m not a tzadeikes, I shot back to my ever-present faultfinder. I haven’t got bottomless reservoirs of patience. But I’m not so bad, either
Ilana Shafer
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Not ready for the blast, the awakening. Not ready for the wrenching sobs from tens of dozens of people who must be better prepared.

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