Shalom Boston

"Shalom, Yerushalayim. Good-bye. I won’t be seeing you for a long time. I don’t want to go but I have to. I don’t know how to convince my mother to stay."

“Shoshi,” Imma said to me a few days ago, “It’s done. We’re going to Harvard University in the United States. They accepted me.” The words burst like a lightning flash and a thunderbolt at the same instant – right over my head. I was stunned. I could not move or speak.

Shoshanna thus began a new life adventure. Hashem dictates plans for our lives – She was accustomed to her friends in Yerushalayim, a family with Imma and Abba, but Abba left Imma so “Imma has to find work to make a living for both of us. Abba isn’t giving her any money…so she’s going where they offered her a job…” She tells herself “I suppose it’s going to be ‘Shalom, Boston’… I may never see my friends – or Abba – again. But I’m not giving up. I’m going to fight all the way – even after I get to America.”