I began to look at the people she was helping: people who were willing to give up their liberty to live as religious Jews
Years ago, you crossed paths. It may have been a brief encounter, it may have been a relationship spanning years. In that meeting place, something changed. Her hands warmed your essence, left an imprint upon your soul.
Seven writers sought out the women who changed them — and told them of the impact they’d had
As told to Riki Goldstein by Anne Slade
Since some of my ancestors arrived in England in the 1700s, the family has become very assimilated over the years. My great-grandfather, I’m told, used to sulk in his English gentlemen’s club on Yom Kippur, because he didn’t want to go to work, but he didn’t have enough religious conviction to go anywhere else.
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