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A Mother in Israel: Modesty, Mikveh and the Female Convert
Mikveh via Wikimedia
Help wanted: Men to serve on the rabbinic court to supervise immersion of conversion candidates.
Producer Nirit Yaakovs-Yinon, a religious Jewish woman, got interested in the concerns of female conversion candidates after hearing abo...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 3:37pm -07:00T (449 words)
 
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A Mother in Israel: Kotel Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich: Expanded Space for Women at Western Wall
Photo by Rahel Jaskow
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich, the rabbi in charge of the Kotel (Western Wall), said last week that he intends to enlarge the women’s section of the Western Wall.
Photographer Rahel Jaskow documented the poor conditions for women in ...
Dateline: 2013-05-04 2:22pm -07:00T (480 words)
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A Mother in Israel: Revisiting the Misgeret, or Is Preschool Necessary
This post was originally published in 2008, but is still relevant for many parents. Sadly two of the commenters, Helene and RivkA, are no longer with us.
It’s bound to happen at one time or another when you are out with your toddler. Your neighbor a...
Dateline: 2013-05-03 4:22am -07:00T (821 words)
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A Mother in Israel: Breastfeeding in the Hospital after a C-Section
A reader writes:
Hi Hannah, I had a question in response to your last post about the formula options promoted by the Ministry of Health. I’m due to give birth to my third child in the next few weeks (in Jerusalem, G-d willing) by elective c-sectio...
Dateline: 2013-05-01 5:07am -07:00T (770 words)
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A Mother in Israel: New Mothers Get Choice — Between Two Brands of Breastmilk Substitutes
I once heard a bit of sales advice for shoe salespeople. After a potential customer has tried on two pairs, you shouldn’t ask if he likes one or the other. Instead say, “Which pair of shoes do you prefer?” With luck, the customer will ac...
Dateline: 2013-04-24 2:07am -07:00T (935 words)
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A Mother in Israel: Reader: Should We Make Aliyah in the Middle of the School Year?
Please check out my blog post at Times of Israel, in honor of Yom Haatzmaut: The Good, the Bad and the Fantastic: 65 Surprising Things about Parenting in Israel.
The post below also makes use of crowd-sourcing via the Mother in Israel Facebook page. A rea...
Dateline: 2013-04-17 8:52am -07:00T (1568 words)
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A Mother in Israel: Fallen Soldiers with No One to Remember Them: Esther Koifman
Esther Koifman (Dreisinger)
Connecting with Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s memorial day for fallen soldiers and terror victims, can be difficult for immigrants. Unlike most Israelis, immigrants may not know any families who have lost loved ones. So I was...
Dateline: 2013-04-15 2:52am -07:00T (1079 words)
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A Mother in Israel: Return to the Western Wall, Passover 2013
Rahel Jaskow’s photo essay on equality at the kotel, Separate and Unequal at the Western Wall, prompted much commentary. She decided to return with her camera over the Passover holiday to document any differences. Here is her report.
Return to ...
Dateline: 2013-04-12 2:07am -07:00T (2091 words)
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A Mother in Israel: The Last Night before the Hurban of Ozerow
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am sharing this excerpt from my father Ben Zion Wacholder’s memoir of the days before the deportation of the Jews of his town of Ozarow, Poland:
No decision was taken by the family as to whether or not I shou...
Dateline: 2013-04-07 1:52pm -07:00T (649 words)
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A Mother in Israel: Modern Israeli Baby Girl Names, April 2013
By Liron Kopinsky
G. writes:
I love your blog! especially the baby names sections but I wanted to ask for myself specifically. I am due to have a baby girl B’H at the end of the month and I am thinking of baby girl names that have a nice meaning, so...
Dateline: 2013-04-04 12:37am -07:00T (153 words)
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A Mother in Israel: Online Conferences, Passover Baby Names and Unequal Accommodations
Butterfly and Syrian Thistle at Givat Gad
I hope you have all had a wonderful Pesach. Aside from a tiyul or two, I’ve been busy preparing talks for two online conferences. I want to thank the many friends and readers contributed pictures that I used...
Dateline: 2013-04-03 12:22pm -07:00T (558 words)
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A Mother in Israel: On Passover and Daughters-in-Law
A year or two ago, the haredi magazine Yated published an article in its family section about the plight of the haredi woman in her forties. With a large number of children of different ages, she has to worry about shidduchim (match-making), teenage ups a...
Dateline: 2013-03-24 12:52pm -07:00T (514 words)
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