Шаббат шалом

[elinka]

Avital's article finally published.

Талечка порадовала публикацией статьи в The Jewish Week. В нашем городе газета появится только завтра, поэтому перепечатка из сети:

Over Tea And Sunflower Seeds
by Avital Chizhik

Comments

congrats!

[tymar]

really good story - I sent it to Rachel, she's into writing as well.

Re: congrats!

[elinka]

Thank you, Marik.

[leoraw]

Beautiful. Encourage her to keep writing.

[elinka]

Thanks! We do, non-stop :-)

[mrs_paramon]

Wow, I really enjoyed reading it

[elinka]

Thanks, come visit us at the dacha :-)

[mikhail2]

I saw the article, but somehow missed your post. Was about to ask you whether it's your daughter :-) Congratulations, she has a really good style...

[elinka]

Thank you, Mikhail. I have a lot to learn from my daughter, the real writer in the family.

feeling different

[anonymous]

Thank you Leora for referring to this - I can only add what everyone else has said, the writing is wonderful - thoughtful, very specific, can almost feel the atmosphere just through the words, and delightful way with words.

But I want to address that feeling of being an outsider - I also am a second generation and also feel much emotional attachment to my parents' heritage (Hungarian) yet after being raised in America also feel a great identity with being American. But the deepest identity is being Jewish and following Torah - for that nothing can substitute for living in Israel - there you can find others who totally understand that way of life. Not that making aliya will finally fuse all of one's identities - there are still challenges to living here, never quite feeling like an Israeli, but I watch my kids as they easily fit in and am so grateful we live here. Avital's young, I think she would love it here.

Klara