Debi Wechsler
By Debi Wechsler
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Community The return of keva
When the pandemic began about 10 weeks ago and the school closed its building, I did what many parents did – I came up with a schedule to help bring structure to my children’s days. It included time for school work, time for exercise, time for creating, time for play, and time for quiet. It…
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Life It Was Never About the Building
Today, April 1, is the 149th birthday of our synagogue. And it sits empty. When the time came to close our synagogue due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, we were very careful to say that it was just our synagogue’s physical facility that was closing. Our doors were closing, but the synagogue itself…
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