Category: Judaism
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Feeling Mother
“Do you feel like a mommy yet?” My mother-in-law has asked me this many times since I had my son, and I never really know how to answer this question. Sort of? Sometimes? I guess? My own mom loves to tell the story of the first time she really felt like a mother: she was…
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Making Meaning
The pressure was on. I had just turned 13 years old, and was weeks away from my Bat Mitzvah where I’d stand in front of my family, friends, and community leading a Shabbat service and reading from the Torah on my own for the very first time. I found myself at my synagogue after school…
