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Waiting for G-d(ot)
Waiting for G-d(ot)
Beneath all those longings and fears, beneath even the anticipation of honeyed blessings, lies - I sense - a deeper waiting...
This Year in Jerusalem
This Year in Jerusalem
8 Reasons to Take Your Children to Israel
I'm not going to make a Pollyannaish claim that taking four kids to the Middle East was a smooth, simple, and stress-free undertaking. But it was also indescribably beautiful and perfectly life-changing...
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What's the Rush?
What's the Rush?
I see little children dressed up like adults, and made to sit quiet for way too long. I watch people risk their lives by walking against a red light to save a whole minute. And I ask myself, "Where are we rushing to?"
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Day In, Day Out
Day In, Day Out
Like the multiplication tables we memorized, just like the laundry we never seem to stop doing, just like the seemingly unimportant passages in our daily prayers from the siddur, they are our reminders that nothing, zero, nada, gornisht, is for nothing...
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Who Am I?
Who Am I?
During those many years, when asked who I was, or when being introduced to others, there was that long list of roles from which to select and identify the woman I had become. As a widow now, the list of the roles I play has become shorter and shorter...
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Beauty of the Beast
Beauty of the Beast
I often find myself at odds with a culture that holds us to a standard of slickness, of airbrushed images and perfect lives. As an artist, I'm on the lookout for the shadows between the light...
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Celebrating Two Years
Celebrating Two Years
I was frustrated that there was little, if anything, specifically geared for the Jewish woman. There was plenty for women, and plenty about Judaism, but somehow the two had yet to find themselves working together...
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Sneakers, Shots... and Skirts
Sneakers, Shots... and Skirts
Four years ago, the school decided to organize a girls' basketball team, and name it after their unorthodox uniforms...They call themselves the BCA Skirts. BCA – for Beth Chana Academy, a private Orthodox Jewish school in Orange, Connecticut. And Skirts for the traditional long dress the girls wear off the court...and on
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Dear Rebecca
Dear Rebecca
A Letter on Intermarriage
The following words, as painful as they might be for you to hear, are coming from a place of love. I wish that I did not have to say anything, but I feel that I have no choice...
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The End of the World
The End of the World
It was back to basics. Actually, it was back to much less than basics. It was back to virtually nothing...
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Baring More Than Skin
Baring More Than Skin
Israel's Greatest Conflict
Israeli consular officials in New York have hired one of the most popular Men's magazines for the tricky task of revamping Israel's image...
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Who's To Blame?
Who's To Blame?
He blamed his victims. He blamed you. He blamed me. He blamed the entire world for what he did. He blamed everyone except for the one person that was to blame...
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Does G-d Care When I'm Sad?
Does G-d Care When I'm Sad?
Though only in her twenties at the time, my friend, Esther, had fought and overcome two bouts of cancer. As if that wasn't enough, she had lost a child in the most trying of circumstances...
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Why I'm Not a Rabbi
Why I'm Not a Rabbi
The women grabbed my hands and joyously led me into the circle. It was one of my final Shabbat's in Israel after spending my Junior year abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. I had decided prior to that year to become a rabbi...
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The Red Carpet
The Red Carpet
The Emmys is an event that is organized to credit, acknowledge and reward those who are the most talented in their fields. It is an evening that is intended to celebrate skill, capability, and creativity, and yet, in the end, it is just one big fashion show...
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Caregiving Our Parents
Caregiving Our Parents
As recently as ten years ago, when I was still working as a geriatric social worker, I never imagined myself as a full time caregiver...
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Repairing Our World
Repairing Our World
The seeds of Noah’s political ambition were sown this past school year when he began lobbying for legislation to decrease school bus pollution...
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Living a Life Through Faith
Living a Life Through Faith
What does it mean to live a life inspired by faith? like drinking of a cool stream, it is a profoundly rejuvenating experience that can empower us in our struggles for days, or months, to come...
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How Parents Live Forever
How Parents Live Forever
I have managed to gather only snippets of information about her past as a child survivor of the Holocaust...
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Do You Know?
Do You Know?
Do you know what it is like to bring five kids and a stroller on a Jerusalem bus on a summer evening? Do you know what it is like to have your entire life changed forever in one split second?
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