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Rebecca Sonkin

Rebecca Sonkin’s essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Tin House, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is reporting a memoir about a deadly car crash.

  • During high school graduation, members of Agahozo Shalom Youth Village's Isheja dance club performed a dance traditionally performed by women
    During high school graduation, members of Agahozo Shalom Youth Village's Isheja dance club performed a dance traditionally performed by women
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    Shalom, Rwanda

    After the country’s genocide of 1994, a Jewish philanthropist founded a youth village modeled after orphan communities in Israel. Now researchers are asking how similar projects can benefit vulnerable youth elsewhere.

    byRebecca Sonkin
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    Kaddish, Revised

    How I mourned my dad a decade after blowing off my biggest obligation to him

    byRebecca Sonkin
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    High Anxiety

    Watching Mel Brooks movies with my woke Gen Z kids

    byRebecca Sonkin
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    The Power of a Party

    When to be Jewish is to feel besieged, how should we celebrate a bat mitzvah?

    byRebecca Sonkin
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