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



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


My Existence isn't up for debate.
I feel a desperate need to stay in places where my existence isn’t up for debate. Lately, those places are getting fewer and fewer. With...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Aug 92 min read


Tisha Ba'av
You know that day after Tisha Ba'av feeling; you're hung over from the fast, dehydrated, tentative about letting go of all the sadness...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Aug 33 min read


Can you imagine if it all came to be?
Prophecies and promises, sweetness and peace- I know it’s hard to see it now, As we all sit in this pit of darkness with pits in our...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Aug 22 min read


A Response to Eicha in 2025/5785
How does a people sit among the nations Alone and despised, but for You? Her land is blooming with fruit, Teeming with children and the...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Aug 13 min read


A prayer, a protest, a promise.
Anyone else have this primal scream sitting at the base of their throat? I don’t let it out; I swallow it many times a day. I feel it...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Jul 282 min read


A walk in the Old City
I walked through the Old City this week, my footsteps unsteady. My body tired. I was thinking about how the city is ancient, built from...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Jul 213 min read


I want to tell you about my friend, Laura.
7 years ago, when I first got off the plane here in Israel, she was one of the first people to welcome me. She was gorgeous and outgoing,...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Jul 193 min read
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