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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...
by Yael Hanover |
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| Dealing with Challenge | ||
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Rescuer of the Children of Warsaw Almost as soon as the Nazi occupation began, Irena began making forged documents for Jewish friends. She also offered food and shelter to the increasingly persecuted Jewish population. Then, in 1940, she witnessed the imprisonment of nearly 500,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto...
By Chana Kroll |
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| Stories of Return | ||
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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...
By Angela Goldstein |
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| Women's Health & Concerns | ||
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Living with Emotional Abuse We're a well-thought-of family—we are considered bright and successful, with good mannered children who are a joy to have in class. But we have a terrible secret...
By Anonymous |
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| Editorial & Commentary | ||
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Confronting Antisemitism in 2009 She comes closer; her finger is waving inches from my face. "I can tell," she rants, "from your hair covering and your necklace (a Star of David) you're not an American..."
By Orly Fuerst |
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| Biblical Women | ||
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Turning Pain Into Power From the fact that the women used musical instruments and danced in accompaniment to their song, we understand that their song sprang from a well of deeper joy and was of a higher caliber than that of the men. And it wasn't by chance that they had their instruments with them...
By Shimona Tzukernik |
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| Relationships & Marriage | ||
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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...
by Shara Jacobs |
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| Educating Our Children | ||
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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...
By Tzippora Price |
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| Abuse | ||
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Confronting One's Childhood Abuse as an Adult Something has tormented my soul for many a year. I tried to live by the adage that what happens in the family stays in the family...
By Edith Brown |
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| Dear Rachel | ||
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I am recently married to a wonderful man who has two teenage children from his first marriage. The problem is that they have decided they hate me, even though they don't know me, and they are really making my life miserable...
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