How I Spent My Wedding Night: An Experience with Chuppat Niddah
Now that I’m officially a kallah teacher in Israel, well-trained by the Eden Center, I thought it would be good [...]
Recognizing the Sacred of Sexuality Begins in Singlehood
Jewish tradition considers consensual sexual intimacy within the context of marriage as a deeply positive aspect of life, holy and [...]
Snow White and The Seven Days
The Parshiot during this time of the year deal with the laws surrounding Tumah and Tahara. This blog shares [...]
The Impact of Child Abuse on Mental Health and Ways to Support Survivors in Their Healing Journey
As an institution devoted to increasing knowledge about intimacy and positively impact on creating healthy families, we offer this [...]
Kedushat Naharei Eden: An Invitation to Our New Cohort
Every Pesach I am struck by the duality of the chag. And I am not the only one– when [...]
Mikveh While Struggling with a Choice Between Marital Misery or Divorce?
A broken record running through the heads of too many women: Guilt, blame, compromise, recurring fights. I need to [...]
PSA For Curly Girls
This is for all Curly Girls who go to the mikveh. I have Type 3 hair which means that [...]
Pelvic Floor Muscles & Sexual Health
The importance of healthy pelvic floor muscles for women is central to maintaining the stability of our core; for essential [...]
A Mikveh Polar Plunge
Almost a year after I got married, I had plans to be at my in-laws for Thanksgiving. Being at their [...]
A Mikveh Adventure
We went to Puerto Rico for vacation. Got badly sunburned. I mean, really badly. Like sun poisoning. Both me [...]
Mikveh Reflections
In doing my internship at The Eden Center, I was thrown into a universe I was not so familiar [...]
On Being a Jewish Woman of Color
Naturally, getting married is a stressful time for everyone. In addition to preparing to enter a new chapter of life, [...]
Tu B’Shvat and our Body Consciousness
Over the last few years our world has responded to Covid by retreating to activities close to home. One of [...]
Relationships in the Shadow of Sexual Abuse
“Will I ever succeed in truly loving someone and giving my trust to someone?” “Will I ever build a [...]
Coming Home to Depression
My husband is a warm, funny, generous person. Together we discovered the most wonderful facets of couplehood, of moving [...]
Wanting and Not Touching
When I first saw the young man at an NCSY Shabbaton, my first thought was that “he’s so cute.” [...]
Decisions
Trigger warning: this blog contains explicit and sensitive material about pregnancy loss. Should we get pregnant? It was a [...]
Like Newlyweds in the Bedroom
Disclaimer: This blog contains ideas and suggestions in the realm of sexuality that some people might find forward. They are [...]