And then, Becca invited me to join her on a Birthright trip to Israel. I didn’t think much about it, just signed up, figuring I could do with a break from the depressing atmosphere, and had nothing much to lose
Debbie: You were my only chance at inspiring my sister.
Mrs. Frankel: I can only keep giving if i take a step back for now.
When I became a baalas teshuvah, my family basically wrote me off as crazy.
Not that there’s a whole lot of us. There’s just Dad, who’s pretty tolerant and only really gets heated up over soccer, and my two siblings, Dan and Liz. Dan was studying to become some kind of actuary, which I thought was kind of crazy, too. Who takes math past high school?
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