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Helena Hawkins

Helena Hawkins is a writer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She and her fiancé, David Sheyman, are working to inspire the local Jewish community and reconnect them with their Jewish heritage.

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In Print / Op-Eds

Why Nobody Likes The Jew

By Helena Hawkins

It is unpleasant to see a small person win. It is unnerving to see a lowly person, a person abused and ostensibly stripped of honor and dignity, maintain his humanity and kindness. It is unnerving to see him demonstrate a G-dly element, an element that is higher than animalism.

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Why Are We Embracing Tohu Va’vohu?

By Helena Hawkins

The first act of creation involved making boundaries. What does this mean? That without boundaries – without distinctions between light and dark, heavens and earth, man and woman – we live in chaos. In tohu va’vohu. We, as a society, have thrown away the very first lines of Bereshit.

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