My Daughter Saw Black, and then a Rainbow 🌈
Jewishly, I fit in everywhere and nowhere. Partially thanks to the serpentine route of my personal journey to (and through) Orthodoxy, and partially thanks to the tolerance and open-mindedness I imbibed with my mother’s milk, I feel as comfortable communicating with a secular Jew as I do with someone Chassidic, Litvish, Chardal, National Religious, Modern […]
Read MoreKinderlach, Go Home
Today I participated in Shevach’s amazing day trip to Gush Etzion. We visited a bunch of places (this photo was taken at the Herodian) but the place that made the deepest impression on me was Kefar Etzion and the story of the brutal 1948 massacre of 242 Gush-Etzion kibbutz members (among them 22 women as […]
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What I Respond When People Ask ” What are Doing Next Year?” by Kelsey O’Connor
At her college graduation, Kelsey O’Connor shares how suffering a brain injury during a softball game enabled her to develop a new perpective on what it means to be a successful human being. I think this is the same message that my 25 years of motherhood have taught me.
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My Tu b’Av Moon🌕👩❤️💋👨🩵
Tonight I went out on a walk and saw the huge full Tu b’Av moon rising in the Jerusalem sky. And it moved me that I’m living in the same city and seeing the same moon as all those single girls who (over 2 thousand years ago!) would dance this night in the vineyards of […]
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