Origins : United Kingdom
I want to share with you a photo of me from my childhood days in London, but all I can find is this torn passport page. Incredibly, I remember being in that passport office—excited and at the same time apprehensive about my future. Moving from Israel to England was tough for me but I never […]
Origins: Israel, Departure
I was born in London, England, but spent a good part of my early childhood in Israel. My time in Israel was both joyous and tumultuous. My parents divorced by the time I turned three or maybe four. Then we moved a lot. I don’t know exactly when, but I remember the trauma of that […]
Origins: Purim
A little Jewish girl in Israel, all dressed up for Purim. A few days earlier she had made a new friend—-a giant tortoise she found in an empty lot near where she lived. She gave her friend some lettuce which she had snuck from the kitchen. Now boyish, with her roughly chopped hair, she was […]