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Israel Zoberman
Israel Zoberman is founder of Temple Lev Tikvah and honorary senior rabbi scholar at Eastern Shore Chapel Episcopal Church, both in Virginia Beach.
Milk and Ashes
In the 1948 photo my grandpa Tzvi feeds me milk from a cup while walking together in the Displaced Persons Camp of Wetzlar, Germany. ...
Contemplating Travel
in Illinois
in Illinois
My mom Chasia (“God spared”),Holocaust survivor visiting from Israel,Apprehensively asked me ifIt was safe to board a trainFilled with Gentiles.
...
Holy Candle Too
My great-grandmother, Rebbetzin Dena
Of Zamosc, Poland,
Direct descendant of Sephardic Jews,
Inquisition survivors,
Freely offered the town’s poor on Fridays...
American zone, 1947–49
Particularly drawn to a patch of trees,
steady company, barbed wire closing in,
Grandpa Tzvi and I, a toddler, wandered
Germany’s Wetzlar DP camp, his hand...
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