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



Today I woke up to the news that one of our prayers was answered.
After 903 days in captivity, Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian PhD student at Princeton, has finally been freed from captivity in...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Sep 91 min read


Isn't this hypocrisy and ignorance at its finest?
Over 1,200 Hollywood elites - Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Cynthia Nixon, Mark Ruffalo, Riz Ahmed, Tilda Swinton, Ava DuVernay, Javier...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Sep 81 min read


Another singer on my Spotify who breaks my heart.
I love Coldplay. They have been one of my favorite bands for decades. Karaoke staple. Road trip must. Pre-bed playlist. But this...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Sep 22 min read


First Days
It's kind of hard to swallow the reality that our children are living here in Israel on this first day of school. When I was a kid, we...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Aug 312 min read


Aliyah
With all our WhatsApp groups welcoming new olim to Israel (and answering millions of questions about banks, schools, and WIFI), the...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Aug 312 min read


Protests
We see the billowing of the smoke on the highways- tires on fire searing the asphalt as we all fall apart. We hear the chanting, the...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Aug 251 min read


Shabbat Mevarchim
This Shabbat mevarchim we bless the new month of Elul- and we all know what that means. Soon the King will be in the field. The time of...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Aug 211 min read


I’m watching these happy Israeli children on the shore.
I’m wondering how many of their fathers and mothers just got called up again for w*r, again. I listen to them shriek and giggle, the sea...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Aug 211 min read


Our beautiful 6
I don’t know how a year has passed, since our beautiful 6 were stolen one last time. I don’t know how we’re still playing games with...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Aug 181 min read


This country is full of men and women like him.
There’s a soldier who does hydrotherapy (PT in the water) at the same time as I do. I see him every week. He wears his unit’s signage on...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Aug 102 min read
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