If I am from any place, maybe it’s Poland.
If I am from any place, probably it’s Philly.
If it’s Poland, we were never Polish, and we were never safe.
If it’s Philly, I’m living in neighborhoods that once were a refuge to my grandparents,
When I have been in moments of grief and someone tells me, “You will learn so much from this,” I want to scream.
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It was a week filled with water—starting with a conversion to Judaism by immersion in the mikveh, the womb of the universe that moves us from one state of being to the other.
Read MoreI believe dining tables are holy spaces. The blessed congregated around them seated like the angles in Heaven would, were they to have knee and hip joints to sit down.
Read MoreMy body is an Ark. I am holding in the Divine, and I am keeping out the Chaos.
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