Tanya Mozias Slavin

Tanya Mozias Slavin is a freelance writer, linguist and a mother of two. Her work has been featured on The Washington Post, The Forward, Scary Mommy, Manifest-Station and Brain, Child Magazine, among other places. She was born in Russia, moved to Israel, and spent many years living in the US and Canada working on a Native American language. She now lives in the UK with her husband and two kids. You can find her at www.tanyaslavin.com, Twitter @tanya_slavin, or Facebook.

I Don’t Fast On Yom Kippur Because I Feel Like An Outsider In Judaism

September 12, 2017 by Tanya Mozias Slavin

Because I grew up in Soviet Russia without religion, Judaism never felt like it belonged to me.