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



Welcome Home Eden
Do you know what has been hitting me the hardest since we first got to see Edan Alexander come home? It's inconceivable to process that...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
May 122 min read


Today I'm thinking of the mothers of Israel.
The ones who raise little boys and girls who go off to war. The ones who worry about sending their children to school. The ones who carry...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
May 101 min read


Today, I was thinking about the version of myself that existed before all of this.
The one who didn't know war. Or plague. Or protests. Or terrorism. The one who dreamed of this land and inhabited it in my imagination....

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
May 63 min read


Life in Israel changes in a moment.
One minute, we are deep in mourning, and the next, massive fires threaten us. Pray for the firefighters who are trying to get the flames...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Apr 291 min read


Az Nashir Contributors Garden Party
On Friday, I hosted a lovely little garden party for our Az Nashir: Between Silence & Song book contributors in my backyard in Jerusalem....

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Apr 261 min read


A tefillah I wrote for Yom HaShoah:
God, “Zachor” is what my grandfather said to me on his deathbed, His bright eyes focused on me, one last time, “Zachor” was written on a...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Apr 222 min read


NEW BOOK UPDATE
Today, in the middle of the day, I went to the printer to take a look at the sample for our brand new book coming out of The Layers Press...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Mar 272 min read


AZ NASHIR: 4 NEW TEFFILOT FOR PESACH
I have not been able to stop thinking about Pesach. Last Pesach, I started crying as soon as my father began singing, "Kadesh,...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Mar 242 min read


We Dance Again
I'm not sure about you, but honestly, I cannot follow the news. As in, I'm watching and reading so much that my iPhone is alarmed by how...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Mar 22 min read


We Love You, Yarden
Dear Yarden, You don't know us, but we know you. And yet, we can't begin to understand what you have been through. What you are going...

Shira Lankin Sheps, MSW
Feb 262 min read
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