Personal Stories

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 [...]

As I recover from my recent hysterectomy, I’m reflecting on how much meaning I found in my last trip [...]

My father, Gene Moshe Schramm, died on June 28, 2023 (9 Tammuz) at the age of 93. He lived [...]

Six and a half years ago, my husband suffered a massive left-sided ischemic stroke. The stroke robbed him [...]

(Content warning: pregnancy loss) Dear baby, You’re seven centimetres, going on eight. You're active, moving around so much, [...]

Pesach: a crazy time of running around cleaning every room. Did I get all the chametz? What should I [...]

110 days of reserve duty. I do not know exactly how many of those days he was actually not [...]

To our dear friends in our wonderful community, I write to you from Eretz Yisrael to thank you for [...]

For my entire life the mikveh has been this thing, this event, that has loomed over my head. I first [...]

Hello my dear bride, I just want to wish you a big big mazal tov! This is such an [...]

When you live in a place where there is a mikveh, then toivelling is something you do at that mikveh. [...]

Now that I’m officially a kallah teacher in Israel, well-trained by the Eden Center, I thought it would be good [...]

Almost a year after I got married, I had plans to be at my in-laws for Thanksgiving. Being at their [...]

We went to Puerto Rico for vacation. Got badly sunburned. I mean, really badly. Like sun poisoning. Both me [...]

My husband is a warm, funny, generous person. Together we discovered the most wonderful facets of couplehood, of moving [...]

When I first saw the young man at an NCSY Shabbaton, my first thought was that “he’s so cute.” [...]

Trigger warning: this blog contains explicit and sensitive material about pregnancy loss. Should we get pregnant? It was a [...]

I met my husband when I was twenty-one. He lived in one city, I in another half way across [...]