Rabbi Leah Kroll had been dreaming about living in Israel since she was a teenager at a Jewish summer camp in California, and when she turned 55 she said goodbye to her mother, three adult children and one grandchild, boarded an El Al plane and made aliyah.
The Journal didn’t have to hire Marty Kaplan. All you had to do is automatically print biweekly columns from your computer with the names Palin (is bad), Limbaugh (is bad), Cheney (is bad), Hannity (is bad). You could save a lot of money that way. Avoid the middleman!
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On the wall of my home office is an authentic family relic — a tallis bag that was carried from Byelorussia to Ellis Island by my wife’s grandfather, Ben Zion Benjamin. The embroidery, elaborate and colorful, features a date: 1895. Today, the tallis bag is framed under glass, but the secret of its provenance and the significance of the date are lost to us.
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