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Dvorah Leah Kvasnik

Nov 3, 2024, 12:08 AM

The worst season is whatever you would call the weeks that lie trapped between the leaves and the snow. Days that blanket the midwest in deep maroons of nostalgia- always accompanied by a bone chilling, headache inducing rain. Naked...

Sep 4, 2024, 8:09 AM

The Speed of Light

A boulder slipped from the stars last night. It hurled through the universe at the speed of darkness, knocked the air from our heaving lungs, and left us pleading at an open, shaking sky. We had hope. We had hope. There...

Aug 2, 2024, 11:11 AM

It’s Been 300 Days

The signs hang. The ribbons are tied, the pins are pinned, the marchers are marching. The clock moves, as it tends to. 7,200 times the hour hand leapt forward, like a ballerina in a box, stuck in a vicious...

May 27, 2024, 1:10 PM

To the five girls I’ve been carrying in my heart for the past 234 days

Agam Berger, Daniella Gilboa, Karina Ariev, Liri Albag, Naama Levy

To the five girls I’ve been carrying in my heart for the past 234 days: Agam, Daniella, Karina, Liri, and Naama. I was at the Kotel last week. The sun had just set, and the sky was an unbelievable shade of...

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Dvorah Leah Kvasnik grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She spent her gap year in Tomer Devorah Seminary, and just completed her volunteer national service in Jerusalem. Dvorah Leah is now working for Chabad on Campus at American University in Washington DC. She loves busy Friday mornings in the shuk, journaling at the Kottel, and to watch sunset at the beach.

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