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TheJewishWoman.org Update: November 1, 2009

 Educating Our Children
When Your Child isn't Welcome at the Playground

When my son was born, I smugly assumed that I would do better. I assumed that no child of mine would ever be the terror of the playground. However, inexplicably, as my son turned two, his sweet and mellow disposition gave way to aggressiveness...
 Abuse
Overcoming the Unthinkable — Recovering from Being Raped by a "Friend"

I didn't know what to do. I didn't know how to react. I didn't know who to tell...
 Stories of Return
Walking the Tightrope — Taking the Wobbly Steps Towards a More Torah-Observant Life

Any kind of duplicity is both a talent and a burden. And I lead such a life. I am a Jewish woman walking the line between belief and practice...
 Women on the Weekly Torah Portion
A Rose By Any Other Name — Parshat Vayeira

Does your name define you? Do you know what your name means? Would you consider it a goal to live up to the meaning of your name? My English name is Stacey, the meaning of which is not fit to print in a Jewish magazine...
— Parshat Va'eira

Braving a New World - Part III — Woman: The First Conqueror

I loved to play with my grandmother's matriyoshki, sweeping the set off the shelf and enclosing one within her mother until all that stood before me was the ancient matriarch of the set. Silent. Robust. Red. Fat and pregnant with maybe fifteen smaller versions of herself. It crosses my mind that these matriyoshki are a visual model for a secret of the universe...
 Biblical Women
The Three Faces of Sarah — Yiscah, Sarai and Sarah

She fled into the desert with her husband, Abraham, to live a comparatively monastic existence as a nomadic tent-dweller and preacher of the One G‑d. Why would a cosmo-girl like Sarah do a crazy thing like that?

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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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