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TheJewishWoman.org Update: October 18, 2009

 Personal Stories
Learning to Live Without Another Baby — My Struggle with High-Risk Pregnancies

For awhile, I bided my time. I went to the gym, and met friends for coffee. I enjoyed these months without bottles and diapers because I knew that the next load waited just around the corner. Until a series of miscarriages...
In Reckless Waters: Falling in Love with a Non-Jew

I didn't intend to like Colin, to dip my toes into the forbidden waters of the non-Jew. After all, I grew up deeply religious my whole life, in strong deference to the traditions imparted from my parents and grandparents...
 Sukkot & Simchat Torah
After the High — Internalizing the Holidays

The children cut out a paper suitcase and four pieces of paper. They are asked to reminisce about everything that happened over the holidays, and to draw four things that they want to carry with them. They place these four drawings in their "suitcase" to keep them company in the months ahead...
 Inner & Outer Beauty
What is Beauty?

Only when something has established its spiritual truth in relation to G-d does its beauty become meaningful. Something is beautiful because it is true and not true because it is beautiful.
 Women on the Weekly Torah Portion
Braving a New World - Part I — Noah, the Flood, and Transformation

One can well understand then that Noah was worried about bringing new life into the world. Why give birth, toil and work the program that living entails if all that is built could at a point in the future also be destroyed!?
Troublemaking Together — Parshat Noach

As a mother, I have a responsibility to teach my sons to do the right thing. But the right thing can mean, at least ephemerally, getting along and cooperating...
 The Struggles of Life
My Youth Slipped Through My Fingers

My youth slipped through my fingers
like an air-filled balloon.
Memories pass before me-

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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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