My Daughter’s Family Photos
On Sunday, I traveled to Maayan’s high school for a mother-daughter event. In her 9th-grade classroom, all the mothers sat beside their daughters and introduced themselves. As far as I could tell, Maayan is the only girl in her class with a mother born outside of Israel. And if my BT-radar was accurate (as it […]
Read MoreThose Annoying Thoughts I Have
This morning I was dropping 4-year-old Yaakov off at gan when I saw another boy getting dropped off by his older sisters. I know that other boy’s mother, she is my older daughter’s principal. And not only that. She is an excellent principal. With just the perfect combination of passion for education, love for her […]
Read MoreI Ate Bacon Last Night for the 1st Time in 24 Years
Over the last year, I’d been noticing “facon” (fake bacon) all over the recipes appearing in Jewish American magazines. And I really wanted to try some. The tastes of my childhood, my primordial memories of food, include parsely dipped in salt water from seder night, gefilte fish with that opaque jelly from the Beth Am […]
Read MoreMy Visit Yesterday to Rachel’s Tomb
Yesterday my daughter, Moriah, and I traveled with her 6th-grade class to Rachel’s Tomb in honor of Rachel Imenu’s Yahrzeit this Shabbat. It’s a little scary going to Kever Rachel. You have to drive, albeit very briefly, through Palestinian Bethlehem and then, to get to the tomb, you drive down a road protected by 3-story-high […]
Read MoreThe Deepest Humans
The other day I was on the bus to Tel Aviv, across the aisle from an American in his 20s. This young man spent the trip scribbling in his journal, and at one point, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that he opened up to a long list divided into several columns. […]
Read MoreMy Mind over Munchies Victory
For the last few months I’ve been taking Rena Reiser’s telephone course on intuitive eating. And it’s been a big eye opener for me. First of all, Rena asked us to pay attention to all the diets and hidden diets and food rules that we construct for ourselves in order to control our weight. In […]
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