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Jessica Levine Kupferberg

Jan 14, 2024, 2:13 PM

My kids learned the meaning of a hundred by counting buttons and feathers; today, I'm marking painful days of loss and kindness

Oct 10, 2023, 4:58 AM

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It’s morning in Israel

Israeli soldiers deployed near the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 8, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

You're so tired but you may never sleep again, your friend's son is missing, your daughter needs a ride, you've made sandwiches for soldiers, and it's just beginning

Sep 1, 2021, 10:03 AM

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And off she went

I placed my hands on my daughter's head, blessed her, and sent her off, with thick socks and a chunk of my soul, to serve as a soldier of Israel

May 11, 2021, 6:23 PM

Red, alert

It was a long night in Israel: The muezzin this night more battle cry than lullaby, Teens' songs turn to stale breath when rushing to doorways and dank garages near the hora-thronged shuk, Young heads covered by shaking hands, hearts knocking. Jerusalem cries after her party and wonders...

Nov 22, 2020, 10:21 AM

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Pushing boundaries with Eruvin

Checking an eruv in Jerusalem the old-fashioned way. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

I wasn't yet learning Talmud when I campaigned for an eruv in California, but I knew it posed no risk to the local birds - nor to the locals who wanted to keep Jews out

Sep 29, 2020, 10:36 PM

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Will Ushpiz follow the rules?

Weary of everything Covid? Me too, so I helped create a family friendly health campaign, with 'punny' posters to decorate your sukkah and lighten the mood

Mar 22, 2020, 4:34 PM

Into the arks

From my son's Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School second grade class, c. 2005. (courtesy)

In multitudes of landlocked arks Bright screens burn-- Dazzling diamond windows Connections across the winds And the dark. Listen to the The brays of boredom The roars of uncertainty The squeals of hungry bellies wanting snacks Again and again. Huddle close; Stay apart! Two by two and seven by seven and...

Dec 17, 2019, 12:06 PM

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My first daf

Until last month, I was pretty sure the 2,711 folios of Talmud were not for the likes of me

May 1, 2019, 12:08 PM

It’s Babi Yar Again

It is seven months ago. A rabbi and twenty-nine women huddle at the edge of Babi Yar. In the silence of the forest, we hear the ghosts of bullets whizzing by. Almost all of us are neighbors and immigrants to Israel from...

Apr 28, 2019, 7:32 PM

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The familiar pain of Poway

Lori Gilbert-Kaye, shot dead in a San Diego synagogue, was stolen from a world that still needed her effervescence and her acts of kindness

About Me

Jessica Levine Kupferberg is a writer and former litigation attorney. She made aliyah from La Jolla, California with her family during Operation Protective Edge in July 2014 after driving across America. She blogs for the Times of Israel and her work has appeared in the Jerusalem Post, Kveller.com, The Jewish Journal, The Forward, Jweekly, aish.com and as part of Project 929 English, and as part of anthologies about aliyah and Covid-19.