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TheJewishWoman.org Update: October 4, 2009 | | Sukkot & Simchat Torah |  | The Sukkahs in My Life
— Connecting to My Past, Present, and Future
By Sara Debbie Gutfreund
Sometimes I imagine my grandparents' sukkahs in the courtyards and on the rooftops of the Lower East Side tenement buildings. I think of the sukkahs in Poland and Hungary before the war; maybe they were also once covered in pure, white snow. Maybe my great- great-grandparents sat across from one another in their own first year of marriage in a tiny sukkah filled with light... |  | Sheltering Me From My Own Inner Walls
— Lessons on Sukkot From Inside a Bomb Shelter
by Shalvi Weissman
My most potent Sukkot memory didn't happen on Sukkot at all, but it has all of the important Sukkot ingredients: unity, protection, joy, and faith... |  | A Peaceful Dwelling
— Finding Beauty in Our Differences
by Nili Singer
We tied everything with thick twine, and we watched the stars through the green branches, smelled figs and roses through the thin walls... | | Inner & Outer Beauty |  | Paper Cut-Outs
— The Undefinable Beauty of a Jewish Woman
by Faye Baruchson
Beauty brought to mind an image of a nameless female figure, a simple rust colored silhouette of a woman with a basket, garnered from a sukkah decoration my mother made... | | Reflections |  | Dance With Me
By Rafaella Levine
The little boy was so excited—his face shone, he laughed, and then he began to dance: jumping and skipping, lifting his legs all about the room... | | Practical |  | We're Having a Baby (Now What?)
by Elisheva Simon
Your childbirth experience fills your consciousness. Your body is recovering physically, your hormones are flying and: there's a baby, who needs and deserves your best... | | The Young Poetess |  | The Butterfly
by Chaya Rappoport
The butterfly danced in front of me gleaming in the golden sun.
I glimpsed it for a second, it was a whisper...
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I am a student rooming in an apartment with another Jewish girl. Though neither of us is religious, I decided that I'd really like to be kosher for Passover this year, but my roommate is up in arms about having to do an intense cleaning...
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