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Oct 3, 2026, 11:58 AM

My son didn’t walk away from Judaism. I walked away from him

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His intermarriage awakened my fears about betraying our Jewish ancestors. It took 10 years to understand that the living were waiting for my love

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Leonard Felson is an independent journalist based in Hartford, Conn. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Forward and Tablet Magazine.