It's the last day of Passover in Pittsburgh, on a special day called the Moshiach's meal, a symbolic way of embracing the Messiah - the redemption, and I'm leaning against our porch door. My eyes are full of tears and I tell my husband who's holding a box of matzah and grape juice that there's [...]
Bear with me... I want to tell you about what it feels to be far, so far away from Israel, my heart and home... Each year from the 3rd week in December to the 2nd week in January, I ask myself the same 3 questions: Why is it so cold in Pittsburgh? Why is it [...]
Today is my Jewish 50th birthday. Turning 50. Like...wow. What a milestone. 50 years ago on the Jewish calendar, G-d gifted me with life and my mother of blessed memory gave birth to me in New York City Hospital. Just the number itself feels round, full of hope, potential, and promise like the challahs I [...]
My son's Bar Mitzvah at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, January 4th 2018 Although I am back now in Pittsburgh slowly reintegrating into the greater Jewish Diaspora, spending two weeks in Jerusalem, Israel to celebrate my son's Bar Mitzvah in January 2018 at the Wailing Wall had deeply reawakened feelings of feeling an [...]