Remembering a Shavuot filled with anguish—and how my family’s loss is echoed in the holiday’s story
The first Jewish sacred space to commemorate miscarriages, abortions, and stillbirths
You can tell your story—even if it doesn’t have a happy ending
In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study, the biblical redemption of a woman’s eldest opens logical byways into cesarean sections, stillbirths, and when Jewish life begins
This week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study happens to pit contemporary abortion law against Jewish views of conception and viability in all animals
A miscarriage—and other fateful devastations—in Ariel Levy’s ‘hard-hitting’ new memoir, ‘The Rules Do Not Apply’
When I found out I was pregnant, I had mixed feelings. The Jewish holidays helped me navigate the difficult emotional journey that followed.
A new line of greeting cards, which address loss and sorrow with humor and honesty, may help you express what you don’t quite have the words to say
Women are entitled to a wide range of emotions about their bodies and fertility. But under Jewish law, the rules are clear.
Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the mikveh
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