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TheJewishWoman.org Update: August 31, 2008 | | Our Mothers |  | The Gift of the Present
By Yehudis Fishman
In 1950, my father passed away, but I didn't know about it until the morning of the funeral. I woke up all excited because not only was it my elementary school graduation, but I was supposed to sing a lullaby that I had composed and written myself... | | Life Lessons |  | The Most Important Detail
By Sara Esther Crispe
Sometimes, all I really want is for the other to recognize that I was wronged. And more often than not, a simple apology will make everything alright... | | Editorial & Commentary |  | In the Shadow of the Tractor
By Tzippora Price
Despite the distance of a few feet between us, we are worlds apart. A few meters away, ominous even at rest, sits a parked bulldozer. It casts an enormous shadow over the playground. I look at the mother, the bulldozer. The mother. The bulldozer... | | Time in Thought |  | Hand in Hand
— The Month of Elul
By Sarah Schneider
The collective vessel of the people of Israel is an organism unto itself that has its own life path and journey from birth to maturity... | | Women on the Parshah | | | A Matter of Trust
— Parshat Shoftim
We spend our youth building up cynicism, then we come to our twenties and thirties and are suddenly expected to make all those big life changes, like marriage and kids, that require faith in our fellow human beings, not to mention ourselves... | | Time in Thought |  | What is Spirituality?
— The Month of Elul
By Lynne Meredith Schreiber
I am all too familiar with the fragility of birch trees. Our counselors taught us that if we peeled back the thin white paper-like bark of the birch, we would end its life. The power was in our hands... | | The Jewish Calendar | | | Early Morning in Elul
By Ruth Fogelman
The old woman sits at the Western Wall.
Although she’s toothless and her eyes are dim,
She sits and waits for the shofar’s call... |
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We live in a very affluent area, one that is far above our means and economic level. The problem is that our children go to school with these other children, and expect to have the same clothing, gadgets and lifestyle that all of their friends have...
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