Not only were the children of women who could not access abortion in greater economic peril, but they were also more delayed in terms of their development, and their mothers reported feelings of being trapped and poor maternal bonding.
In the month of Tammuz, the moon gives us guidance on how to have a hot girl summer without getting burned.
Roe is gone and pills are here— but we still need clinics.
“The road to a disordered relationship with food and exercise was paved with well-intentioned comments about my appearance and eating habits.”
“All that I have learned from my 15 years of living with very personal, profound loss as a person who was 30 years old when faced with that loss—and trying to figure out how to live a life.”
So, T and I came up with a compromise. I would show up to her daughter’s Purim reading, in costume, dressed AS a mechitza, and stand on the men’s side.
The Button Box isn’t a proselytizing tool; it’s an adventure story with Jewish and Muslim kids doing a few ordinary Jewish and Muslim things, while they travel through time learning how to own and defend their cultural identities.
“When I eat a knish, when I drink a chocolate egg cream, when I butter a board of matzoh, I feel connected to my heritage and generations of my family.”
Neither my classmates’ psalms nor my prayers of supplication had succeeded in bringing peace.
It’s true that the city erupts in violence and that all the cups of coffee and kenafe in the world can’t fix everything or make it all better.
But it’s also true that Jerusalem is a place of possibilities and of miracles––a place with the potential to connect all who love her.
What is the source of your inner compass? This lunar cycle is here to remind you that you are your own greatest teacher.
