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Rachel Cohen

Tisha B’av in Chile

July 31, 2014, by

In July 2006, as a young and curious college student, I arrived in Santiago, Chile for a semester as an exchange student at one of the country’s universities. I had the opportunity to live with a warm and generous Jewish family that is part of Santiago’s relatively small Orthodox community. I arrived about two weeks