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Sofya Tamarkin

How a Motherless Widow Embraced Kindness

When I was a little girl, I used to love hearing my grandmother retell a Yiddish folktale about a miserable couple living in their cramped quarters with

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Sofya Tamarkin

The Sweet Lull of My Soviet Grandmother’s Lullaby

“Music is a form of sensed continuity that can sometimes break through the most overpowering disconnections in our experience of time.” — Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks When I

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Sofya Tamarkin

Tisha B’Av – The Saddest Day of the Year

Tisha B’Av FAST starts on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 (8:17 pm Philadelphia time)  – ends Thursday, July 30  (8:47 Philadelphia Time) For exact times of the