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TheJewishWoman.org: October 3, 2010

 Life Lessons
Flatter Me — Reflecting on the Good Within Us and Each Other

We were given two eyes for two very different purposes; our left eye, to look at ourselves critically, and our right to look at others with kindness...
 Joys and Challenges
Out of Bounds — Raising Children to be Inviduals

I tell the psychiatrist that in our family we are all a bit weird. She seems taken aback by my openness. Perhaps she does not remember as clearly as I do what it means to be a child...
 First Person & Stories
Experiencing Shabbat

Six days a week I have an incredibly hectic schedule. There are so many things going on that six days of my week can pass and I won't even notice how much my children have grown. I won't have time to talk to my husband, not about my work or the grocery shopping, but about us, life, our dreams, our goals...
 Our Lives
Reconnecting with My Best Friend — After Thirty-Eight Years

She asked me what happened. Why did we lose track of each other? I said in those days, with no email, she moved to Israel and I stayed behind. It was harder to work at staying in touch and just easier to let things drop and occasionally hear about her from mutual friends. Life moves on, the everyday routines take over, and slowly the relationship faded away...
 Women on the Weekly Torah Portion
Braving a New World - Part I — Noah, the Flood, and Transformation

One can well understand then that Noah was worried about bringing new life into the world. Why give birth, toil and work the program that living entails if all that is built could at a point in the future also be destroyed!?
 Reflections
The Golden Years — My Work with the Senior Community

The seniors at the home had amazing stories to tell about their lives and their families. Some were survivors and others were lonely and just wanted a visitor...
 Women on the Weekly Torah Portion
Troublemaking Together — Parshat Noach

As a mother, I have a responsibility to teach my sons to do the right thing. But the right thing can mean, at least ephemerally, getting along and cooperating...

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Dear Rachel
My husband had asked me a few weeks before my birthday what I wanted. Not really needing anything in particular, I smiled and said "nothing" telling him that being married to him was all I wanted. I was trying to be sweet...
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