Tag: tree of life

Violence, Loss and Healing—Emily Barth Isler’s “Aftermath”

Yona Zeldis McDonough

I love showing a roadmap to forgiveness in the book. In a story that shares more than enough examples of how life can be horribly unfair and sad, I want kids to see examples of how things can go well or be done helpfully. How things can go right.

Carrying the Torah for Those We Lost in Pittsburgh

Liat Katz

I have had mixed feelings about my relationship to Judaism and my specific relationship to worship, but Saturday’s events strengthened my resolve. As I heard the news of the eleven people who lost their lives, I thought about those people worshipping as I was before being gunned down.