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Photo of soldier in Iraq lighting FridayLight candles.

I want to share a story about when I was traveling through Europe right out of high school. I was in Amsterdam and it was early Friday evening. I am Jewish but my parents are very casual about it and light Shabbos candles only now and then. I had been away about three weeks and was kind of homesick. My two traveling companions had gone to a café and I was out walking in a residential area when I noticed a family gathered around a table lighting Shabbat candles and I got tears in my eyes I felt so far away from my home in Philadelphia. One of the family must have seen me, because an older brother came out to talk to me and invited me in to share their Shabbat dinner. It was amazing. I’ll always remember them.