It’s in these in–between spaces of being Jewish and Mexicana, that I remember my mother/mi madre and her stepping aside so I could continue to live “una vida completa en paz/a full life in peace.”
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Our children are proud of their Black and Jewish heritage. They are participants and leaders in Jewish religious and communal life. All the forces that tried to diminish the Jewish spark in my husband’s family have lost.