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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
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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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