Embracing Your Body: Focusing on Nourishment Over Numbers
As the summer sun beckons, many feel pressured to achieve a "summer body." The pervasive message to fit a [...]
How to make your mikveh night better
It seems the world today encourages us to listen to our bodies and pay attention to what we feel. [...]
Keeping Your Kids Safe
Summer is upon us, and for many of us, this means that whatever structure we’ve built for ourselves is now [...]
What is Unique About a Geirut Immersion?
It felt as though I was witnessing a birth. That’s all I could think to say the first time [...]
A Meaningful Final Trip to the Mikveh
As I recover from my recent hysterectomy, I’m reflecting on how much meaning I found in my last trip [...]
Stories That You Don’t Tell at Shiva: The Time My Father Drove Me to the Mikveh
My father, Gene Moshe Schramm, died on June 28, 2023 (9 Tammuz) at the age of 93. He lived [...]
The Importance of Inclusive Communication in Our Relationships and Around Our Seder Tables
Six and a half years ago, my husband suffered a massive left-sided ischemic stroke. The stroke robbed him [...]
A Letter to My Baby
(Content warning: pregnancy loss) Dear baby, You’re seven centimetres, going on eight. You're active, moving around so much, [...]
How to Better Support Couples Facing Infertility During Pesach
Pesach: a crazy time of running around cleaning every room. Did I get all the chametz? What should I [...]
When and How Should Taharat Hamishpacha (Family Purity) Be Taught?
I would like to share a thought that has been on my mind in recent years, which is, that [...]
Easing the Time of Physical Separation During Niddah
The constant transition between times of separation during niddah and times of physical togetherness can be very challenging. As [...]
Feast Your Senses!
Even while at war, and in a time of challenge and despair, we know it is so important to [...]
Five Areas of Intimacy in a Holy Home
We all know that intimacy is the cornerstone of a healthy and successful marriage. But how do we get [...]
Emerging from the Waters Reborn
The Eden Center values offering different perspectives on how we can connect spiritually with the practice of mivkeh, and [...]
What You Need to Know about This Preventable Cancer
The knowledge of our bodies that we gain via keeping the laws of niddah can be harnessed to guard [...]
Iron Swords: The Emotional Roller Coaster
110 days of reserve duty. I do not know exactly how many of those days he was actually not [...]
Finding Space for Personal Grief in Times of National Grief
As we all know, life has drastically changed in many ways for those of us living in Israel. Since [...]
Empowering Women through Cycle Knowledge
My memories of my menarche are challenging. During my teen years I suffered from horrible periods - excessive bleeding, [...]