Judaism
Mikvah: The Unification of Opposites
It took me a long time to see how Torah and science are one and the same. As a young…
Making it to the Mikveh– With Breast Cancer
Published on The Layers Project Magazine in partnership with The Eden Center. A few months after giving birth to my…
When the Kallah Teacher Doesn’t Want to Go to the Mikveh
This essay was published in on The Layers Project Magazine in partnership with The Eden Center. Listen, it wasn’t all…
Monologue in the Mikva
This essay is published on The Layers Project Magazine in partnership with The Eden Center. The image was taken during…
Waters of Separation: For My Daughter at the Mikvah
Reprinted with permission from The Eden Center blog Three days before her wedding in May 2013, my daughter and I had…
“Born From Loss: Birkat Emunah”
This essay is brought to The Layers Project Magazine in partnership with The Eden Center. “That lady at the mikvah…She…
Layered Listening
Some people are born storytellers. I was born a listener. My ears are my source of power; hearing the pain…
Poway
For Lori Gilbert Kaye z”l This is the way it feels. The tip of my finger is pinched by the…
Rona’s Story: Women in The Workplace
(1/7) “You Can Do This” “Unlike my parents, I did not dream of becoming a classroom teacher. I knew I…
Alone
Fiction Mindy sits in the neurologist’s waiting room. To her right and left, patients—most with pinched brows and downturned lips—flip…
The Failings of Solely Focusing on Beauty
As women, we know that we need to take care of ourselves. We should eat nutritious food, dress in a…
Filtering Reality: Instagram and the Megillah
“I think often about the millions of Instagram accounts where their entire personal brand revolves around snapshots of pretty moments.…