Rayzel Raphael
What if wee find we are more resilient than we knew?
What if wee find we are more resilient than we knew?
Everyone who made up what would have been my Jewish family was lost in the War. No one taught my Buba to cook.
Miriam the prophetess has been an acclaimed character in Jewish feminist lore for years, but I wasn’t raised among feminists.
Every year, on the morning of Passover, I must ask myself, “How can I strive to be one of the midwives?”
The purpose of the Seder is to tell stories. Not just any stories, but our stories – the stories of our people, of our families, and our own deepest stories. And not just to anyone – but to our children, those, perhaps, before whom it is most difficult to expose ourselves.