Jeanie Silver

INSPIRATION

Fighting for Sandy: A Woman’s Struggle to Give Her Sister a Jewish Burial

On Shabbat Chanukah of 2006, my older sister Sandy passed away. Raised a secular Jew, she had arranged to have her body cremated and gave her friend Brian, a Buddhist,…

PEOPLE

Finding My Way Back: Shlomo’s Story

I was an extremely creative child. I was a big reader. I would paint, draw pictures and write short stories and poems. I played guitar, bass and drums and wrote…