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By Malkie Gordon Hirsch In an interview with the Meaningful People podcast, Racheli Fraenkel (mother of Naftali Fraenkel, Hy’d) uttered something so clear and personal to me, that I could have expressed it myself, and I kind of wish I had. She mentioned that while she was in a restaurant in Florida while conducting a […]

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Earlier this year, I stood at a new bus stop, one entirely unfamiliar to us, since the child standing by my side was my only daughter. In a way, it seemed like we were starting from scratch, by joining the ranks of all things feminine, from the uniforms to the headwear, […]

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch I think that I’m still surprised at how bad news still shocks even me when I initially hear something I didn’t expect to. One would think that since I’ve been through tragic and sudden loss, that I’d somehow be immune to the feelings of others, to the conjuring of emotion that […]

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Since coming back from our trip to Israel, life has been a whirlwind of activity. We arrived home last Wednesday night, and since Friday, the kids have been on Chanukah vacation from school. Although for some the knowledge that arriving back home would throw us into anything but the routine might […]

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch I’m a terrible traveler and I’ve always been a master procrastinator. And for those of you who are adept at the organizational requirements of travel, just know that the combination of my two habits is not ideal. As I stood in JFK yesterday (which seems like a week ago due to […]

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Around an hour into our pilgrimage to Washington, DC with a few hundred thousand others making the trek, I realized I left my phone at home. I had nodded off, as one does when woken up after four hours of restless sleep, and with a start, unzipped my fanny pack to […]

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch I stood in the middle of the Ghetto Fighters Museum we visited this summer with the TJJ program and listened to the various accounts of the women whose family members had gone through the war. We walked about the room observing the various collections of personal effects that belonged to families […]

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch I truly feel like I owe my grandmother an apology. Sadly, she passed away in May, so I don’t get to express my regrets in person, but I’ve been thinking about her more often, due to what’s been going on lately. In a way, I am relieved that a woman who […]

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Of all the things I could’ve predicted writing about on the other side of a busy yontif season, I assure you that this never crossed my mind. And even with all we’ve been through as a Jewish nation, and personally as a woman who’s been through her share of trauma, I […]

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Lately, I’ve started conjuring the courage to reread past articles for which I haven’t had the emotional energy until now. Like thumbing through an old photo album to recall how everyone looked younger and slightly different years ago, I started skimming through the articles I’ve written in years past, to remind […]