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JEWISH WOMEN'S STORIES, SPIRITUALITY, & WELL-BEING



Hope & Lamentation
A Poem (Contains: Miscarriage) Grief for what I cannot possibly remember. Mourning for an ancient house I’ve never seen. A loss – loved...
Merri Ukraincik
Aug 13, 20241 min read


A Different Kind of Tisha Ba'av
Can I tell you a secret? There are many among my acquaintance who are going into Tisha Ba'av tonight feeling full of optimism. In all my...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Aug 13, 20242 min read


A Heart- 6,000 miles away
I know how hard it is to be on the other side of the world when the land that has your heart is in distress. I remember during the war in...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Aug 13, 20242 min read


Life in Jerusalem
I never thought I would be so lucky to get to call the holy city of Jerusalem my home. I didn’t even know what it meant to live here when...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Jun 5, 20243 min read


How Do We Celebrate Yom Ha'atzmaut?
This year no one knows how to celebrate Yom Ha’aztamaut. Every day since Oct 7, especially today, we are holding space for many emotions....

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
May 13, 20241 min read


Yom Hazikaron In an Impossible Year
At 7:58 we all went into a room, the lights off, the windows open. I looked out and saw all my neighbors all around us, standing at their...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
May 13, 20242 min read


Counting Down to Shabbat
Every week I find myself counting down the moments till I can light my Shabbat candles. Shabbat is glorious. The time away from the...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
May 9, 20242 min read


We Are All One Family
Every kid in Israel will come home from school today with a Ner neshama, a yahrzeit candle- with the name of a Holocaust victim on its...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
May 5, 20242 min read


A Perfectly Imperfect Pesach
As the long ushering of Passover begins, there are many things upon which we can rely. The house will be scrubbed from top to bottom....

Rachel Weinstein, LCSW
Apr 17, 20244 min read


The Miracles We Experienced
That night was surely one of the most surreal and terrifying nights of my life. As sudden and shocking as Oct 7th was, Saturday night was...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Apr 15, 20244 min read
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