Editorial & Commentary

Happy sixth birthday to TheJewishWoman.org!

It’s hard to believe that it is has been FIVE years since TheJewishWoman.org first launched!

As we celebrate the 4th birthday of TheJewishWoman.org, we truly are a growing family of women throughout the world...

As we celebrate the 3rd birthday of TheJewishWoman.org, we truly are a growing family of women throughout the world...

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...

Of the hundreds of new articles we've posted this past year, here are the ten that generated the most interest.

Of the hundreds of new articles we've posted this past year, here are the ten that generated the most interest.

To be united with other Jewish female souls in this virtual world makes me feel more Jewish, more confident and more spiritual . . .

I feel I am part of a community of healing and hope. Because those of us reading and writing for The Jewish Woman can be honest with one another, we truly understand, and learn from each other...

When I hear the word "religion," I instinctively cringe. My stomach turns. My hands become clammy. My throat dry. On occasion, I have been known to break out in hives. This tends to confuse people who know me as a Torah observant Jewish woman...

Ten, eleven, twelve. I get to the top of the staircase, say a short prayer and brace myself for the greeting that I am about to receive as I open the door. Every morning it's the same as I arrive at the Eating Disorder clinic where I work...

I realized that these graves were in my backyard right now for a reason. And in order to hear the message, I needed to be courageous enough to look straight at the cemetery and learn from it...

We all want to be heard, but it is so hard to really listen – even to ourselves! Just about all of us have come to think of education as being about bringing knowledge from the outside in, not from the inside out, but it's really an exchange between one bottomless well of wisdom to another...

"What is a Jew?" the teacher asked the class. I was at a conference in Los Angeles. Every type of Jew could attend and any attendee could present. This was my first class. His question got me thinking...

When you think pregnancy, all you imagine are stretch marks. When you hear baby, you just see flab. To you, growing a child is a "that" - not a feminine experience. This attitude is the antithesis of all that is womanly. You may have a great body, and you certainly work to keep it that way, but you're no female role model...

We all have challenges and struggles in our lives. But how we live with them or through them is what defines the kind of person that we are...

Judaism recognizes that we all have the power to change. But it doesn't happen on its own. It doesn't happen simply because we grow older...

At times they would just wobble, catching themselves and recorrecting. Other times they flat out fell, skidding across the ice until they could stabilize. But no matter how hard the fall, the same thing would always happen. They would get right back up...