For such a small place, there is quite a large Jewish and Israeli community. Before I arrived, I started contacting people through various Facebook pages, and was pleasantly surprised to get such...
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I’m Not Sorry
I had a very interesting and meaningful Yom Kippur, thanks to the wonderful Chabad of Raleigh (special thanks to Rabbi Herman & his amazing wife). I was nervous about spending YK alone, but felt...
Shalom, y’all
I am feeling happy, sad, excited, scared, nervous, ready, and most of all, fulfilled. With all these mixed emotions, I could write a more bittersweet love song than Adele right now. It would start...
Will The Jewish People Let This School Fail?
From Seth Cohen at Boundless Drama of Creation Blog – a discussion about a school in North Carolina that is 40k short and will close. The parents created the school from scratch in 2006. There...
Kol Hakavod, Alysa Stanton!
Alysa Stanton will be ordained in June by Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati as the first female African-American Rabbi. Yay! On being the first? She says: “If I were the 50,000th, I’d still...