WORDS THAT BREATHE

On Yom Kippur morning, Matt, Alli, and Charlie Seigel took the bimah at Congregation Or Ami to tell their family's story — a childhood taunt on a ballfield, a mother's grief that led her home, and a Jewish star a daughter once took off and chose to put back on.

Two rabbis spent a rainy day at Disneyland with Congregation Or Ami's youth before Rosh Hashanah — and discovered where real community-building happens.

The mother died four days after her daughter became Bat Mitzvah. And then I had it out with God.