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TheJewishWoman.org Update: August 9, 2009

 Joys and Challenges
Learning to Mother Again After Losing My Baby to SIDS

The internet is an amazing thing. In an instant, mothers from all over the world can connect with each other online. We share interests, tips, stories about our children; we compare ourselves and pick one another apart...
 Inner & Outer Beauty
Uncovering the Mystery of Modesty

More important than what we are covering is what we are exposing...
 Life Lessons
Swimming Lessons

Whatever mood I find myself in, there is one aspect of this ritual that remains consistent: There is always a glaring life lesson reflected back to me from those crisp, cool waters. When I am receptive enough to allow that lesson to penetrate, then those are the mornings when a good swim changes my whole life...
 Reflections
Bagels and Locks

It is a tradition in my family. The women have always been obsessed with hair. They learned this from their mothers, who learned it from their mothers and on it went—sometimes skipping a generation until someone was lucky enough to be born with "good hair"...
 Women on the Weekly Torah Portion
Chewing It Over — Parshat Re'eh

Why would anyone feel euphoric just because they can see where the floor in their kids' room is? Men might chalk it up to insanity, or to simply being one of those girl things, but I prefer to attribute it to spiritual sensitivity...
 Stories of Return
Choosing Shabbat

I had just come home from having a painful medical procedure when the phone rang. To my astonishment, it was a woman from a local radio station telling me I just won tickets...
 The Young Poetess
Seasons

The sun burns down,
On the old lazy town.
The flowers have bloomed,


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Dear Rachel
My son recently remarried and his new wife has three children from her previous marriage. Her three children are close in age with my son's three children. In addition to us being a bit overwhelmed and trying to adapt to this new Brady Bunch situation, I am not sure how to really integrate my new grandchildren into our lives...
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