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In her class, Aviva is the only girl without a father, and that becomes particularly poignant in her sixth-grade year, when the school traditionally hosts a father-daughter Bas Mitzvah Bash at a local arcade.
Is she Israeli? Is she American? She feels out of place in the country of her birth, and unable to return to the homeland of her choosing.
In addition to sharing how they processed trauma, frustration or sadness, many share happy, unexpected results of their struggles, and several note that the process of sharing their stories is therapeutic.
June 26, 2026 
