Finding Their Light // Four personal accounts of women who chose their own paths...
For most people who find Yiddishkeit as adults, the life they leave behind is devoid of Torah. Still, there are some who grow up...
Why were my baby’s legs turning purple? // Did Craniosacral Therapy have the answer?
Preface:
I confess: I’m a BIG believer in holistic cures. Decades before the frum community’s consciousness about alternative medicine was first raised and then popularized,...
Chanukah, 1938 // Witness to a miracle
Every year, Chanukah arrives just when it seems we need it most. As the days grow shorter and the nights stretch long and dark,...
‘‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?’’ // My husband borrowed money from my...
My cellphone rang just as I was about to leave the house. I looked at the screen and my heart skipped a beat. It...
Great Gift or Garbage? // Sometimes, there’s no way to know until it’s far,...
He was trying to hold it together; that much was clear, but the tell-tale tremble of his lip finally gave way to full blown...
Diagnosis: Determined // To the doctors, she was just suffering from hysteria
I woke up one day and realized that I could no longer ignore the symptoms that had started to hang over me like a...
Until We Find Our Brothers
1980
I’d always known that I was Jewish, a member of Beta Yisrael. We knew that Ethiopia wasn’t our true place and that we were...
Terrorized but Not Broken // One woman’s account of how she and the Jewish...
November 26, 2008
I gave my sleeping six-week-old daughter one more gentle kiss and rose from my perch. My husband Sharone’s voice drifted down the...
Four Daughters, Four Fathers, Four Stories // A gathering to recall World War II
On a bright Sunday morning a group of Jewish men have come together to share their memories of living through the Second World War....
Minchah at Midnight // A chinuch strategy is almost torpedoed
“W ho were you speaking to?” I asked Atara, my 13-year-old daughter. She was standing in the doorway still clutching her phone. Her face...
