A Year After a Devastating Stillbirth–Chen Embraces a Baby Boy (Arutz 7)
One year after having a stillbirth in her eighth month of her pregnancy, Chen Chadad gave birth this week to a healthy baby boy. Chen made a special request to give birth with the same staff that had been with her a year ago. “It was clear to me that those people who were with […]
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My Magical Megillah
On a recent trip to visit my father, he gave me a very special gift. An antique silver Megillat Esther which he inherited from his mother, my grandmother, who had a sizable and wonderful judaica collection. I don’t know if my grandmother ever used this megillah. But I know my parents never did. In fact, […]
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To all the Women Living in Palaces by Yocheved Rottenberg
It’s Purim night and I need to go to sleep, but I just can’t. I can’t go to sleep, cuddle up in my world, while I know that other women are crying themselves to sleep tonight. I know Purim is a day of happiness. I know that we’re all trying to be happy, trying so […]
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Haman’s 10 Sons=A Woman’s 10 Commandments by Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi
Haman’s 10 sons got hung on a tree, and here are the 10 things every woman should hang on the tree in order to be done with them once and for all: 1. Parshandata. This literally means, “an interpreter of her religion” (Parshan-Dat-a) Parshandata is when we interpret another woman’s religious level based on her […]
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