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Dena Schusterman founded Chabad Intown in Atlanta, where she's built a thriving community as an educator, preschool director, and teacher. She writes about parenting and applied Torah thought for publications including Kveller, Chabad.org, Groknation, Ami magazine and the Atlanta Jewish Times.

A mother of eight and native Californian, she and her husband Rabbi Eliyahu Schusterman have called Atlanta home for twenty years. Stories Carry is her debut memoir.
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Stories Carry: A Memoir

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Stories Carry by Dena Schusterman
"Stories Carry is a memoir rooted in faith, identity, and the inherited narratives that shape a person’s life. Through the lens of growing up as the daughter of Chabad emissaries in 1970s Berkeley and later becoming a shlucha herself in Atlanta, Dena " Read more of this review »
Stories Carry by Dena Schusterman
"Everyone’s experience of America is unique, but for Chasidic Jews living as schluchim, the rules are different.
Read Stories Carry if you are interested in seeing a slice of the country you probably don’t know. Read Stories Carry to meet Dena Schuste" Read more of this review »
Stories Carry by Dena Schusterman
"Dena and I became friends on the internet, and through years of connection, I assumed I knew what her memoir would be about. I didn't expect this book to live within me the way I did.

The story moves between two timelines: her parents building a Chaba" Read more of this review »
Stories Carry by Dena Schusterman
"Honest and inspiring autobiography

Rarely has an autobiography incorporated the lives of the author’s parents and grandparents so fully into the author’s own story.  Like Russian matryoshka dolls, the stories fit inside one other. Dena Schusterman mas" Read more of this review »
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