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A Blessing from my Grandmother

By Pamela Frydman Baugh

The Holocaust remains a key trope for the construction of Jewish identity. In this memoir, a frum family comes to accept the rabbinic ordination of Rabbi Pamela by recalling the memory of her namesake, Grandmother Pessel, who fought for her own liberation from the Nazis.

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