Day: February 28, 2024

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Writing from abroad
Lori B. Sagarin

Wearing My Heart on My Wrist and Around My Neck

Some of my earliest childhood memories were going through both my grandmother’s and mother’s jewelry boxes. I loved trying on the shiny and sparkly pins, rings, bracelets and necklaces, imagining being old enough to wear “real” jewelry.

My first piece of jewelry that represented something more than a birthday or a bat mitzvah gift was the MIA bracelet I wore for over a decade engraved with the name of a Vietnam soldier missing in action.

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Bryan Opert

AL ELE ANI BOCHIYA

Hashem, and the Heavenly Court, enter
the Beit Knesset on Rosh Hashanah
to open The Books.2

uNetaneh Tokef3 softly wafts through the hall and
Hashem opens the first page of The Book;
tears unexpectedly fall from His eyes.

the angels of the Heavenly Court are bewildered–
Hashem turns over the page and tears
continue to fall like the waters of
the Simchat Beit Hashoeva4

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