Dr. Shaena Abramowitz

Iwas 38 years old, and blessed to have finally found my soulmate after many years of searching. I was navigating the first delicate stages of our marriage while settling a remote mountaintop on the southeastern tip of Judea with only one other family in a two kilometer radius.

It was exactly then that Hashem had me meet Miriam Fuld. Two weeks after Ari, hy”d, her husband of nearly 25 years, was murdered, Miriam brought her family to our home on the Arugot Farm for a day of healing and connecting.

Miriam did not choose her plight of pain, devastation and loss. She did, however, choose her response. Rather than succumb to grief and self-pity, Miriam valiantly picked up the torch and continued spreading Ari’s light to the nation he so dearly loved.

Miriam told me that Ari was the ideologue and she was the mom. But over the last four years, Miriam has courageously worn both crowns with dignity and grace, continuing to be the loving matriarch of her beautiful growing family as well as spearheading the Ari Fuld Project and continuing her late husband’s holy work.

When my days are challengingly long, juggling a homestead life, a revolving door of visitors, two Judean babies, and the many physical and existential threats to our home, I think of Miriam’s dignity and poise, and her steadfastness in her mission.

Sometimes we choose hardships, and sometimes they choose us. However they come, our response is what matters most. Thank you Miriam for being an example of resilience and grace, to me and all of the women who are working for our Land and our people.