https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp JJP Book Club en-us 2019-01-06 09:07:44 UTC 2020-10-19 14:43:17 UTC hello@padlet.com Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317636964 Choose your favorite quote in each of the next columns, which deal with the main themes of the novel. 

Add a comment at the bottom of each column: What made you connect most to each quote? How does this quote best represent the theme? Don't forget to add your names to your posts. ]]> 2019-01-06 09:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317636964 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317637332 "Rachel couldn't recall a time when her life hadn't been defined by the fact that she was Jewish."]]> 2019-01-06 09:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317637332 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317637438 "No matter what they had experienced, they had one thing in common. All of us...are refugees, without a country or home."]]> 2019-01-06 09:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317637438 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317637555 "A sabra has a tough outer layer. But inside, it is soft and sweet. That describes the Jews born in Palestine. We must be strong and tough to survive, but inside we are tough." ]]> 2019-01-06 09:20:30 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317637555 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317637922 Aviva: "I joined the Haganah because I wanted to protect our people...I wanted to be...protecting our people through strength."]]> 2019-01-06 09:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317637922 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638015 Rachel: "I wish I were a Sabra. They are so...free. They live in a country where they are proud to be Jews. They haven't lived in hiding or had to wear yellow stars."]]> 2019-01-06 09:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638015 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638137 David and Saul: "It wasn't easy living in the forest, but at least we were free, not taken to concentration camps in cattle cars."]]> 2019-01-06 09:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638137 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638200 Rachel: "I hated being Jewish in Hungary. I always felt that an outsider. I watched Jews being beaten and arrested. I heard people talk about Eretz Yisroel and I decided that it was the only place I wanted to live."]]> 2019-01-06 09:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638200 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638335 "Their ship had been renamed by the crew, based on Jewish history-- the exodus from Egypt, where they had been slaves."]]> 2019-01-06 09:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638335 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638504 Yossi: "We will fight them with all our might. We will not let them take control!"]]> 2019-01-06 09:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638504 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638539 Rachel to Miriam: "They haven't beaten us. Whatever happens, don't let the soldiers see us cry."]]> 2019-01-06 09:32:06 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638539 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638641 "It was a miracle that the ship hadn't broken into pieces and sunk. But it had remained afloat and we survived. Now, we must survive whatever comes next."]]> 2019-01-06 09:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638641 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638711 Mordecai: "We are not beaten. We are not slaves. Whatever happens, we will continue our struggle."]]> 2019-01-06 09:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638711 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638805 "Ruth Gruber is telling the world you are brave people who should be allowed to live in your own country."]]> 2019-01-06 09:37:28 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317638805 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317639041 Mordecai: "There is just one place in the world that we want to live. That is our homeland, Eretz Yisroel. There, and only there, we will leave these ships of our own free will."]]> 2019-01-06 09:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317639041 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317639130 Rachel to her mother: "In France, we will still be Jews in someone else's country."]]> 2019-01-06 09:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317639130 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317639421 "Look at the stars. So many. It is such a big universe and all we are asking for is a tiny piece of land where we feel safe and secure."]]> 2019-01-06 09:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317639421 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317639495 Ruth: "They are people such as the world has never seen, they are the bravest people I have ever known."]]> 2019-01-06 09:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317639495 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317639541 "Throughout the whole ordeal, Rachel had been strong. Hensche thought back to their time in Budapest when Rachel often got into trouble because of her high spirits and independent nature. Even in the ghetto, Rachel had been a bright spirit, cheering them with her antics."

]]> 2019-01-06 09:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317639541 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317639686 "After sharing many hardships aboard the ships, the refugees continued to celebrate and dream about the future... They seldom talked about what they themselves had experienced in the war. These subjects were too painful to voice aloud. So they lived, ate, played games, sang and staged performances in the camp. And waited to go to the land that would give them shelter, a place they could call home."]]> 2019-01-06 09:51:46 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317639686 Yoni_Israel https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317640115 "Rachel and the passengers on the Exodus 1947 had the conviction and courage to realize their dream and they enabled hundreds of thousands of others to do the same."]]> 2019-01-06 09:57:42 UTC https://padlet.com/yoni_israel/7qv323np1mkp/wish/317640115