Mishpacha Magazine

Like Mother, Like Daughter

My parents are both professionals, no strangers to technology, but it never occurred to them that this could happen to ...

The problem wasn’t that Avi wanted to go the army. It was that we had no way of getting him out of army servic ...

The news wasn’t a shock. Our 84-year-old mother had been fighting cancer for years, and the cancer had recently metastasiz ...

I didn’t know it at the time, but I was going through the first of several manic episodes I would experience.

Suddenly, we crossed over into the suffering side of society. The doctors there told us there was nothing they could do ...

What they were saying, basically, was that no one could ever love me because I was fat. I can’t even begin to des ...

Two months before our wedding, I got a call from a woman who introduced herself as a therapist. “I’m seeing your kal ...

Much as I wanted a normal life and a family — which the doctors said was impossible because of the accident — I ...

Frankly, it’s none of your business. It’s information that I’ll share with the right person, at the right time — which, ...

Previously, mothering Hindy had been about survival. Although I had forced myself to stay calm when dealing with her, insi ...

For her and my father, who had grown up in an anti-Semitic communist environment, my leanings toward frumkeit were a dangerous return to the shtetl