Description: Where my thoughts on progressive religion, adoptive parenting, politics, movies, and baseball collide
Where my thoughts on progressive religion, adoptive parenting, politics, movies, and baseball collide
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I am the child of a family of Moroccan Jewish refugees who found refuge in Israel. My mom was 16 on the day in 1956 when her entire life in Morocco abruptly ended — the day that her father was tipped off by an Arab friend that he was marked for death by the Moroccan liberation fighters (who were trying to oust their French colonizers) because he was discovered to have assisted other Jews to emigrate to Israel. She and her many siblings and their parents packed what they could take with them in suitcases and