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On a sunny Saturday morning in California, my spouse Ryan and I arrived at the Chabad House of Oakland for Shabbat. The website had promised that the 10…
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After a week of being sedated in the ICU with a feeding tube down my throat, I awoke hungry and confused. I had lost 20 pounds, and there was a drainage…
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When my oldest son was about six months old, I took him to his first Royals game. Now, with my first kid, I was not comfortable openly nursing. So, I had…
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I was in the Hispanic food aisle in Walmart when I heard a white woman say, “What is this?” I had found the couscous to make tabbouleh in the same…
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In college, I was the girl who would low-key judge people for playing Christmas music the second Thanksgiving was over. It has led people, to believe that…
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Easter makes me… uncomfortable. My anxiety couldn’t possibly be from the time Great-Grandma Kathryn sprayed the lawn with pesticides the day before…
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For the longest the time, I thought my mother didn’t like me very much. Of course, she loved me in the obligatory ways. She fed me, bathed me and read to…
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My family never had the money to buy a Christmas tree—not even a fake one. So, when I was around 10 years old, we brought home a tree that had a lot of…
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Like a lot of Jews on Christmas Day, my family congregated at the movies and Chinese restaurants.It became a time-honored tradition to gather around and…
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What I hear is her voice. In the kitchen. Singing along with Elvis. She pulls cookies from the oven and stirs the chili in the crockpot. "I’ll have a blue…