The Koheles Era // In the Realm of Not Knowing
I n November 2018, Hamodia published “My Well Has Run Dry,” by Rabbi Avraham Twerski. That painfully frank, straightforward personal essay about aging—his own—was...
20 Kallahs, 20 Chasanim, One Wedding // How Rabbi Mordechai and Mrs. Shterney...
The first time I escorted a couple to the chuppah I was in my early 30s, and our oldest child was barely a teen....
Color-Coordinated Craziness // Why buy two different gowns I was never going to wear...
At my brother’s wedding I was the black sheep of the family—literally. While everyone waltzed around in blush-colored gowns, I stood out in my...
Silent Answer // Her silence should have told me what I needed to know
The day I’d dreamed of had finally arrived. I’d been divorced for several years and was ready to move on. Every since leaving my...
Her Legacy Lives On // Almost a year after the tragic deaths of chasan...
It was a beautiful Friday afternoon, balmy and warm, just seven short days before Pesach. At the Levin home, Yisroel was about to head...
From Frazzled to Neat Freak in just 8 weeks. Can Fraidy do it?
I’ll never forget the day of The Great Robbery. The victims of the robbery, though, have no recollection of the event. That’s because they’re...
The Gift // They were the ugliest things I’d ever seen in my life
When my husband ceremoniously placed a big brown box on the kitchen table as he walked in from Shacharis, I assumed it was the...
Scion of Royalty; In Tribute to Rebbetzin Devorah Svei
Rebbetzin Devorah Svei, a”h, passed away last week at the age of 84. The Rebbetzin was a brilliant woman, by all accounts a true...
A Cry for Help // The doctors kept insisting that it was “only...
Have you ever had to call poison control? I have. It happened on a lovely day in June, just after I’d bought the pharmacy...
Keeping Secrets // Telling my family had too many drawbacks
The first person I called to share the good news after I found out I was expecting was, of course, my mother.
“But don’t tell...
