Jenn Director Knudsen
By Jenn Director Knudsen
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Community Worried about celebrating holidays remotely? Tips from a Jewish expert
Congregation Neveh Shalom’s Rosh HaShanah service had just wrapped up. But the congregants, assembled in squares on the Zoom gathering, remained online, even after the conclusion of the three-hour long service ringing in the Jewish New Year of 5781. Rarely do I make it to the end of the lengthy service in synagogue. But this…
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Opinion On Yom Kippur, My Eating Disorder Haunts Me
Is Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement, or the day of Post-Traumatic Stress? For me, a “recovered” anorexic, it’s both. Liturgically, Yom Kippur is powerful, a day characterized by introspection, asking forgiveness, profound considerations about how to right wrongs and improve oneself. It makes sense it’s a day of self-denial, including 25 hours without food….
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Culture Judaica For Sale at the Dachau Gift Shop
This past fall, my family was planning a trip to some of Northern Europe’s greatest cities — Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin and Munich. Dachau is just a one-hour drive northwest of Munich, which was to be our final city before returning stateside. And so we put the former concentration camp on our itinerary. Once in Munich,…
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