The Guardian
(Hannah Ellis-Petersen) In a small building in the foreboding shadow of Jerusalem’s Mount Zion, Rabba Tamar Elad-Abblebaum looked upon a crowd sitting attentively before her. “We have had a long way to go to prepare for this evening,” she said with a soft smile. “Today we all do something very brave.” Certainly this congregation was unlike any she, the leader of an Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem, was used to addressing.