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Written By: Adina Ehrlich No Couple Left Behind

The shul is still.
The baal tokeia finishes the
brachos, and everyone waits
expectantly for the shofar to blow.
Suri listens too, her head nestled
deep in her machzor. And
even with her eyes covered,
she sees only one thing in her
mind’s eye: her daughter Ruchy,
standing at her side, shuckling
intently over her machzor too.

Ruchy’s been standing there since
she’s nine. First she only came
in for short parts of davening;
then, as she matured, she
stood through the whole thing.

And then came the year after
her summer wedding, and Suri
No had beamed at Ruchi, knowing
that she only had a year or
two left in shul, before she’d be
home, caring for a little one.

Leaf Left It hadn’t worked out that way.
As her friends slowly stopped
coming to shul, instead staying
with
home
their
babies,
Ruchi had been left behind.
Unturned And now she stands still,
surrounded by girls and Bubbies
but so alone in her age group, and
Suri’s heart, already broken into
a billion pieces for her daughter,
breaks again.

Join us in our journey and letts expolre
what Bonei Olam does behind the scenes
Chaim marches merrily around
the bima, his arms completely full.
Seven-year old Dovid sits proudly
on his shoulders, clutching

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