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MIssion: Inspire

Imagine Birthright for mothers.

Picture a trip to the Holy Land with a group of like-minded women from across North and South America.

Visualize a chance to change your world.

It’s not as hard as it seems. This spring, Etz Chaim: The Center for Jewish Living and Learning will help arrange for 18 local mothers to travel to Israel on the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project trip. The mission is free. Participants pay only for their airfare.

The goal of the experience: to inspire a woman, inspire a family, inspire…
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December 2012

When I received my review copy of “Into the Wilderness,” David Ebenbach’s new and second short story collection, I assumed it was about nature. I was kind of right; it’s a book about human nature and the rocky road through parenthood. Judaism plays a supporting role in each of Ebenbach’s stories, whether they are about single mothers, gay fathers, intermarried families or the transition from parenting children to parenting teenagers. Ebenbach’s characters are real and memorable, and readers will have no trouble identifying with their struggles. Ebenbach’s manuscript won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize, and with good reason.…
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