Talking with the “Enemy”
Tensions between Right and Left are sky-high after a victory in the Knesset today for judicial reform. International news on Israel is all about the fury of those protesting the reforms, and the increasingly violent demonstrations. But what the news hasn’t been telling you is that this deep rift distancing Israelis from one another is […]
Read MoreA Hug Out of Nowhere
Yesterday my daughter had an appointment in a quiet, remote neighborhood overlooking the Malcha Mall. The appointment was an hour long, so I looked around for a place to daven and chose a bench by a walking path sandwiched between rosemary bushes and grass on both sides. The freshly-mowed grass made it smell like Baltimore […]
Read MoreThe Baby My Daughter Waited 5 Years For by Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi
(I’ve known Rabbanit Yemima’s daughter Shuli since she was a young girl. I was at her Bat Mitzvah. I rejoiced when I heard sheβd gotten married. And over recent years, I would often exchange greetings with her when I ran into her on her way to teach 6th grade near my home. She always looked […]
Read MoreI Married at 45 and Didn’t Dream I Could Still Get Pregnant by Leslie Gold Ruder
My story should serve as chizuk for anyone who is an “older single” awaiting the day, may it be soon, when they meet their true zivug. I became a baalat teshuva, Baruch Hashem, around the ripe age of 39, never having done very well in the area of relationships-with-men, and then dated for nearly 7 […]
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