We gave them $100. They made someone’s day. 9 stories
Life had been a comfortable, predictable journey up until one year ago. I’d been a Jewish educator for 27 years, as well as the preschool and family engagement director for the community synagogue.
Then COVID-19 hit full force, and everything came grinding to a sudden halt. My husband, a respected doctor, was one of the first to contract the virus and was hospitalized with coronavirus-caused double pneumonia.
Quarantine and contamination were new words in March 2020, and we were viewed as pariahs of sort. The synagogue stopped services, schools shut, and we couldn’t even walk out our front door.
Our community of Montgomery County, right outside of Philadelphia, rallied like I’d never seen before. It was hard, going from being a natural giver to a taker, but there’s a grace in that as well, and I tried my best.
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