Julia Knobloch

I always wanted children, so I took parashat Vayeira as a good omen. Maybe I, too, would be a mother later in life - but now I’m 43.

For many years, I felt inhibited to knock on the door of a synagogue. Simultaneously, my heart and gut knew where I belonged. There is in fact Jewish ancestry on my father’s side – contested by some relatives; strong enough to reinforce my feelings of visceral kinship.