Credit: Getty Images.

I travel to New York City frequently these days for work. A few weeks ago, the evening before going down, the chain for my necklace broke. My other necklace is a Magen David — a Star of David — that my grandmother gave my mother, and then my mother gave my daughter, and it now resides in my jewelry box. I have worn it before when feeling sentimental.

After putting it on I began to worry whether........

© Times Union