Being together, it is what Jews do. Every aspect of Jewish life is designed around the communal experience. When we mourn, we gather in a minyan to say Kadish. Read More
This particular year, my year of kaddish for my mother, how do I sit in this shul and not feel in every part of me her presence beside me, her reading the prayer for Australia or the prayer for peace as if they were theatre pieces. Read More
But this is not a cookbook. It’s a history of our mother’s cooking aspirations throughout her married life… Read More
Some women inherited romantic notions of what it means to be a mother and reality catches up to them quickly. Read More
What happened to my father when he was a kid scared me, and it made me angry….What do you do with all that fear and anger? Revenge is nice but change is better. Read More
This is NOT a cookbook! I had been working on this book since March 2020, and I knew that the chosen title best reflected all those months of dealing with the pandemic. Read More
Jews are survivors, one of our strongest attributes and part of our DNA. Hawaiians who survive their tragedies are known as Me ola and are people of Kupa-always standing firm and steadfast. Read More
Rebecca wasn’t a hero. She didn’t do anything that you’d normally write about in history books but there was something in her story about trauma, migration, hereditary, survival and healing that felt important. Read More
Some may have questioned my choice but to me it seemed like the most natural thing in the world. Read More
Mikveh is a somatic experience, bringing together the purity of our body with the beauty of our soul. Read More
Last year my mama and her best friend concocted a plan. They were lamenting that both their children were so wonderful and so brilliant but that they were both so single… Read More
Not long after, I trained as a Laughter Yoga leader. I became an expert extolling laughter’s virtue to anyone who’d listen. That was until a distinctly un-funny time in my life—a bowel cancer diagnosis at age forty-two. Despite there being nothing humorous about cancer, I knew deep within that laughter was inextricably bound to my experience. The moment had arrived to practice what I preached. I just needed time (and a couple of major operations) to connect the dots. Read More