Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Sarah Zadok http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 18 May 2013 17:20:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Thanks for the Mammaries http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/thanks-for-the-mammories/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/thanks-for-the-mammories/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 10:24:25 +0000 Sarah Zadok http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=123108 I’m on my way to get an ultrasound. Of my boobs. I am trying to stay cool and collected, and remember the doc’s emphasis about this being a “precautionary measure just to confirm that everything is fine,” but my heart has gone rogue and abandoned rationale in favor of palpitation and shortness of breath. I [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/thanks-for-the-mammories/feed/ 43 Heartbeat of the Homeland http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/heartbeat-of-the-homeland/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/heartbeat-of-the-homeland/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:51:04 +0000 Sarah Zadok http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=78076 I’m on vacation. I’m in the U.S. on a Momma-daughter bat mitzvah trip with my biggest girl. We came to celebrate her passage into young womanhood by getting seriously loved up by her grandparents, aunties and uncles, eat obscene amounts of New York cheesecake, buy stuff, see some shows and stay up late. We’re 18 [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/heartbeat-of-the-homeland/feed/ 7 Making out with G-d http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/making-out-with-g-d/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/making-out-with-g-d/#comments Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:07:37 +0000 Sarah Zadok http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=66714 I learned early on that prayer is primarily about communication. l learned this first from watching Harold and Maude, then years later in a Torah class. For the most part, my M.O. as far as prayer is concerned has been to simply talk to G-d, kind of like I would to a girlfriend – only [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/making-out-with-g-d/feed/ 21 Dimmer switches and stillness: How I greet the new year http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/dimmer-switches-and-stillness-how-i-greet-the-new-year/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/dimmer-switches-and-stillness-how-i-greet-the-new-year/#comments Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:04:24 +0000 Sarah Zadok http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=65720 I’m a doer by nature. I make bread and cake and babies. I work, I clean things, I push hard. I often see myself on a journey for the dimmer switch in my life, trying to find the balance between the side of me that approaches life with the energy and productivity of a coked [...]

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