Sarah Zadok

We can read, learn, and intellecutalize to refine our mothering methods--but the bottom line is: we don't need to behave like a mother, we need to roll up our sleeves and be a mother.

Giving birth with confidence demands that you commit to labor with the understanding and acceptance that it is not easy – otherwise they would have called it something else

I recently gave birth to our second child and our first son, 2 1/2, is obviously in need of a lot more attention. He has also reached the depths of terrible two's...

Not that I had anything against Rabbis per se, I was just young and more interested in carving out my own brand of spirituality. But, here I was, as low as I had ever felt, knocking gently on the proverbial “heaven’s door.”

No man is permitted to use his wife solely for his own personal, physical gratification. Thus intimacy, in the framework of Jewish marriage, like any of the other Torah commandments, is to be enjoyed, enhanced and sanctified.

I recently began seeing a man who really appears to have the qualities that I want in a husband. The problem is that I am really not very attracted to him...

The one consistent thing that every doula brings to a birth is a willingness to offer the birthing mother whatever support she needs to help her get through this powerful experience with confidence, strength, dignity and love.

The man I am thinking of marrying can be very sweet and kind. But just when we are getting along well, he suddenly changes...

My married son is very distant emotionally from me. He very rarely calls, never e-mails me hardly ever invites me over...

I am a single woman, never married, and don't have any children. Is there a place in Judaism for the single woman?