I didn’t grow up observant. We were what I’d call involved liberal Jews. My first steps towards a more traditional lifestyle started in high school on the March Of The Living. My parents were shocked when I returned home wearing a kippah. My thought process was so many of our ancestors were persecuted for being Jewish, I shouldn’t take it for granted. There were many lessons learned from my time in Poland and Israel but one of those lessons only became clear more recently.
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