Almost Like Being There // How unfair that I’d missed my husband’s childhood!
As I prepare for my son’s upsherin, his first major milestone, I am totally predictable. As an emotional, intense and rather imaginative person, I...
49 Phrases to Calm an Anxious Child
For an adult, anxiety can be hard to deal with. But what do you do when your child is experiencing it? Here are tools...
Women to Know: Naomi Elbinger
The first thing that strikes you about Naomi’s house is the garden. It’s not one of those sculpted, landscaped magazine gardens. This garden features...
Police! // It wasn’t exactly a lie…
“Boy, it’s late,” my husband said nervously as he eyed his watch. “We’d better hit the road.”
“I’m ready whenever you are,” I replied as...
Uprooted: Take Me Home
No matter where on the globe we find ourselves, every Jew feels like Israel is home. It’s threaded through our identity, the land of...
Touched by a Towering Maple // I was surprised to see that it...
I thought I’d never walk down that block again. Why would I? Everything I’d ever deemed worthwhile was gone, including my childhood home and...
The Man Flu // do men really get a worse case of the flu...
From the depths of the darkened, too warm sickroom, the patient coughs weakly, and then, summoning all of the strength that he has left,...
Sweeping Generalizations // Was my teenage daughter finally ready to grow up?
“Jennifer has never been to Israel before! This is her first trip, and you’re the only girl her age in the family. If you...
Can You At Least Tell Me Why? // Shadchanim Tell Their Side of the...
Shifra’s words could have been echoed by hundreds of shadchanim, brave men and women who are burning the midnight oil, sometimes putting in 18-hour...
Coat of Fur // Was it ever really meant to be mine?
I was only five years old when I first understood the glamour of wearing a fur coat. This was when my public school class...
