Foreign Notebook: Ajara
Dispatches Magazine, March 4, 2025
With the Jewish holiday of Simhat Torah looming—the first anniversary of the October 7 attacks on the Hebrew calendar—my wife and I decided to take our three girls to Georgia, where my father and grandfather were born and raised. Our eldest’s eyes lit up, until, eyebrows furrowed, she asked, “Is it a dangerous place?” I said, “We wouldn’t take you to a dangerous place.” Again she thought and asked, “But didn’t they put your grandpa in jail?”
