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Jodi Samuels

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Jodi Samuels is an author, speaker, super mom and wife living in Jerusalem. She challenges mindsets and brings her passion for life to her work as a not-for-profit leader, community activist, disability advocate and entrepreneur.

In her memoir, Chutzpah, Wisdom and Wine: The Journey of an Unstoppable Woman, Jodi shows how she uses resilience — and a lot of humor — to face life’s challenges and come out on top.

Jodi founded Jewish International Connection in order to provide community for Jews living abroad and hosts hundreds of events a year.
She started Jodi’s Voice to inspire people to live their lives to the fullest, to overcome limiting perspectives and to challenge them to recognize how they can make a difference in their own world.
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The World at My Shabbat Table

As Israel slowly started turning the screws toward COVID-19 lock-downs in early March, I started to feel slightly suffocated and I began to panic: What were my family and I going to do if we could not host our customary events for hundreds of people or Shabbat dinners at our home every week?
Our immediate need for guests was partially solved when a stranded South African family, unable to get on a Read more of this blog post »
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Published on September 30, 2021 03:17 Tags: jewish, jewish-mom, shabbat
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“This book is about a girl who knew very little about her Jewish heritage
when she was young and it follows her journey to the woman I am today — a
tireless advocate dedicated to sharing timeless Jewish values with the world.”
Jodi Samuels, Chutzpah, Wisdom and Wine: The Journey of an Unstoppable Woman

“What we fail to teach our children and what the community fails to see is that we
need inclusion and acceptance, not superficial chesed. I’m not looking for someone to
come and sit with my child, call her cute and feel like they’ve done something good.
No, I need people to come alongside us during the hard times as well. You don’t just
get to host my child for a meal or a night and check a box that you’ve done
integration. True acceptance is completely integrating my child in all aspects of
society.”
Jodi Samuels, Chutzpah, Wisdom and Wine: The Journey of an Unstoppable Woman

“I believed the challenges of inclusion must be dealt with on a moral level by the wider community.”
Jodi Samuels, Chutzpah, Wisdom and Wine: The Journey of an Unstoppable Woman

“This book is about a girl who knew very little about her Jewish heritage
when she was young and it follows her journey to the woman I am today — a
tireless advocate dedicated to sharing timeless Jewish values with the world.”
Jodi Samuels, Chutzpah, Wisdom and Wine: The Journey of an Unstoppable Woman

“I believed the challenges of inclusion must be dealt with on a moral level by the wider community.”
Jodi Samuels, Chutzpah, Wisdom and Wine: The Journey of an Unstoppable Woman

“What we fail to teach our children and what the community fails to see is that we
need inclusion and acceptance, not superficial chesed. I’m not looking for someone to
come and sit with my child, call her cute and feel like they’ve done something good.
No, I need people to come alongside us during the hard times as well. You don’t just
get to host my child for a meal or a night and check a box that you’ve done
integration. True acceptance is completely integrating my child in all aspects of
society.”
Jodi Samuels, Chutzpah, Wisdom and Wine: The Journey of an Unstoppable Woman

“Are you going to wolf out and eat me now?"
"Certainly not, you'd be stringy and hard to digest."
"But kosher."
"I'll be sure to point any Jewish lycanthropes in your direction.”
Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example. Who knows, it might even be our religion from which the world and all peoples learn good, and for that reason and that reason alone do we have to suffer now. We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English, or representatives of any country for that matter; we will always remain Jews, but we want to, too.”
Anne Frank

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