The Caretaker // I was always there for my father
I was my parents’ caretaker from an early age. It was obvious to me that they were suffering and needed a great deal of...
Phantom Baby // My next-door neighbor didn’t have any children. Or did she?
Ifirst met Goldie Wolner when she knocked on my door to welcome me to the block. I had a screaming baby in one arm...
In Search of a Diagnosis // Even the top geneticists couldn’t figure it out
"It’s a girl!”
They were the most beautiful words I’d ever heard.
For years I’d dreamt of having a little girl. I loved my sons dearly,...
Sisters but Strangers // Decades after the affair of the Yemenite children, DNA testing...
WITH THE AID OF MODERN technology, two Israeli sisters of Yemenite descent who had never met each other were recently brought together. There wasn’t...
Dinner is Served // It would have been a shame to let it go...
My cellphone rang just as I was dozing off. Groggily, I pressed the talk button.
“Hello,” I croaked, slightly disoriented.
“Hi, Nechama. It’s Gitty Klein,” my...
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...
