Summary: This excerpt from my memoir, TWO TREES FOR KEVIN, A WOMAN’S JOURNEY FROM GRIEF TO FAITH, won an honorable mention in Tiferet’s 2011 writing contest. Josip Novakovich, an author, was the judge for my category, nonfiction. My memoir is about how the loss of my brother drew me closer to my Jewish faith. This excerpt was published alongside other winning essays in March 2012 in a digital version, Fifth Gate, of Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature.
