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Sh’ma Blog: Vote because I can’t
BY: RACHEL KAHN TROSTER
I’m an anchor baby. Born in the U.S. while my Canadian father was in rabbinical school, I was supposed to be born in Toronto. Indeed, my mother had plane tickets for Canada three days after my sister and I came a month early, surprise twins. I’m not supposed to be an American. [...]
Sh’ma Blog: Forgotten Voices
BY: RACHEL KAHN TROSTER
Every year, I avoid the Akedah. In my student High Holiday pulpits, I preferred to give a sermon about anything but the Akedah. My usual self-doubt about having something unique to say about any subject at all would go into overdrive when it came time to writing a sermon for the second [...]
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