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  • 'Just things' - like what my LA neighbors have lost - are what makes houses into Jewish homes

    Rachel Steinhardt, First Person|Jan 17, 2025

    (JTA) —The antique silver menorah. The shabbos candlesticks. The tiny tefillin set. The last remnants from Europe that my grandparents, all Holocaust survivors, managed to shlep to America. And I need to get them out of my house. Right now. I had this thought during a moment, last week, when the Palisades Fire raced unchecked in all directions, including south toward my Santa Monica home. I threw a few documents, clothes and photo albums in a pile on the living room floor, and on top of those I...