Adrienne Ringer

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Dec 29, 2016, 4:46 PM

Peace in my Mortality

Certain moments and places fill me with peace. Awash in a tranquil weighted weightlessness -- I find myself connecting to The Infinite in relief. Slowly calming a fussy newborn baby; watching her eyes grow heavy, her perfect pink lips yawn,...

Mar 23, 2016, 5:25 PM

It’s my birthday. And some say we have an ability to bless others on our birthdays. But more than this, it is the time of year when G-d’s warehouse of “free gifts,” is open to our prayers and I...

Jun 7, 2015, 1:46 AM

Welcome G-d, Please Come In

I view marriage within the context of our modern spiritual world: we don’t currently have our Temple and Torah learning is fantastic but it’s mostly theoretical (without the aforementioned Temple). Moving from spiritual to physical realities: children are ours for...

May 30, 2015, 11:44 PM

Redeeming Captives: How I started to escape from the prison of PTSD

Haven. Sanctuary. Escape. Safety. Calm. Peace. A handful of emotional wealth is always with me, always accessible, always in my metaphysical pocket. For most of my life I never thought about PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and I never understood my...

Sep 30, 2014, 12:36 PM

Yom Kippur: Best Day of the Year!

As a 19 years old student at UC Davis I would drive 500 miles to and from San Diego several times. During one trip the freeway was empty, not a car in sight, mile after mile. Soooo ... I slowly...

Jul 29, 2014, 12:19 AM

the politics of life and death; peace and war

I don't enjoy discussing politics, I don't enjoy reading about them, I don't enjoy any aspect of politics; I certainly don't want to write about them. Yet at this time, in this place, ignoring all politics is insensitive to the...

Jul 13, 2014, 5:02 PM

Waterproof Mascara

I'm so accustomed to the stress of living here, in Israel, that I am often surprised when friends of mine, tourists, talk about how overwhelmed they are and how they want to fly right back to the states. On one...

Jul 8, 2014, 5:11 PM

I never thought PTSD could be a best option; yet the name inherently implies it's "post." I'm a happy and mostly thriving survivor of PTSD and for two weeks I believed and hoped and prayed that our three kidnapped Israeli...

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About Me

Adrienne was born in California. While attending university in Davis, CA she met her husband. He proposed within 36 hours and announced, "I'm moving to Israel." Adrienne (who never thought of living anywhere) said, "That sounds like fun." Within six months they moved to Jerusalem where she was able to continue her studies at Hebrew University. After four years they were blessed with twin boys and Adrienne became a full time mother. Today Adrienne works as a professional gardener in Jerusalem, teaches English (she calls it her "shmittah" job), assists with three day Imago workshops, writes material which seems inappropriate for the Israeli Charedi community (despite living in an intensely Israeli Charedi city) and manages to love, feed and clothe the four men in her life.