Happy Jewish Birthday Around the World
A special project connecting Jews around the world to Israel, in memory of Gil-ad Shaer.
I was about 14 when I discovered three other friends who were born on the same day as I was – the 9
th of the Hebrew month of Elul. We felt a special bond, and to this day we email or WhatsApp each other on our birthday. One of those friends and I call each other “Sis,” and she became like a surrogate daughter to my elderly parents, when I was six thousand miles away from them, so the nickname worked.