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TheJewishWoman.org: July 25, 2010

 Stories of Return
Family in Flight

I should have seen it coming when he wouldn’t drive to synagogue with us anymore, or eat at our favorite non-kosher restaurants. One minute, he was just our baseball-cap-sporting patriarch, watching videos with us on Saturday afternoon while we munched on gummy candy. The next minute, he was a bearded, kippah-wearing, Torah-quoting stranger…
 Jewish Women You Should Know
Dorothy Smith — Turning Challenges into Springboards

 The Month of Av
The Circle and the Line — Celebrating Tu B’Av

Two of the most basic of shapes, yet two extremely deep and complex ideas. Feminine and masculine. The circle and the line . . .
 Reflections
The Beauty of Silence

As a mother of two small children I worry when I hear silence. Whether it's laughing or screaming, to me noise is reassuring. Noise means that everything is okay. Well usually anyways...
 The Month of Av
The Dancing Maidens of Jerusalem — The Holiday of Tu B'av

There were no greater festivals for Israel than the 15th of Av and Yom Kippur. On these days the daughters of Jerusalem would go out... and dance in the vineyards. And what would they say? "Young man, raise your eyes and see which you select for you..."
 Poetry
Tu B'Av

Dance, maidens of Jerusalem,
Dance your round and sing,
And call the lads of Jerusalem
Around your pleasant ring.


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