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Este Abramowitz

Dec 26, 2024, 11:50 PM

Rav Moshe Feinstein, one of the premier American poskim in the twentieth century, responded to an Orthodox woman’s question on how to repent for her sins. In Igros Moshe (Orach Chayim 4:117), he recounts the story of a Kollel...

Dec 17, 2024, 7:19 PM

My Husband Was Snow White

In his Ma’ama”D (Mamlachti Dati/ “public religious”) elementary school, my husband put on a Purim play for the parent body, playing the role of Snow White. He borrowed his mother’s blonde sheitel (since when did Snow White turn Blonde?)...

Dec 8, 2024, 10:14 AM

The Pursuit of Peace

This past Friday, I was driving home after a tough week of unnecessary drama and stress. I put on my favorite song to cry to. (Don’t we all have songs that we gravitate towards in our moments when we...

Dec 2, 2024, 10:48 AM

Don’t Trust in Your Princes

What’s given me chizuk over the years—over all my trials and tribulations—is Bitachon. Bitachon means security, feeling secure in HaShem’s arms, as if nothing can touch you and no worry can pass through your mind—like an infant in her...

Nov 19, 2024, 7:57 PM

My Light, My Salvation

I wanted to thank my dear brother-in-law Kaddish Abramowitz for providing the biographical details in this story. In his late forties, Kalman Abramowitz completely lost his vision in the right eye. Besides four other ailments from which he suffered, including...

Nov 17, 2024, 4:54 PM

Stones of Simplicity

I am a very literary person, so it’s interesting why for the first time, a simple question like this popped into my head: In several tzivuyim in the Torah, we have the language of ואהבת—and you shall love—connecting the...

Oct 23, 2024, 10:34 AM

Family Is Power

Photo credit: Ann D Koffsky, 'One Response.'

Baruch HaShem, we have seen many miracles in Israel very recently. These events came at an opportune time when Jewish people around the world yelled prayers and heartfelt cries for those suffering in Israel and in the larger Diaspora....

Sep 12, 2024, 8:15 AM

Majority Wins

My sister Leila and I got our degrees in subjects that very few women had majored in at Lander College: I studied Judaic Studies and she studied Math. Before we graduated, we both took a thesis course, researching a...

Aug 19, 2024, 5:55 AM

The Real Answer to The Question

Take a look at how we are answering to the Nazis’ Jewish Question, eighty-five years later. Shlomo Bochner, a chassid and founder of the fertility organization Bonei Olam (Builders of the World), sent out a video last week of his...

Aug 7, 2024, 12:45 PM

Can’t ‘AI’ Me Love

For the next couple of days, we are hyper-focused on distancing ourselves from anger and dislike and encouraging unity. Anger, to me, evokes novels strewn with shattered vases, miserable marriages, and punched-in walls. As Mussar literature posits, anger can...

About Me

Este Abramowitz is a Yeshiva English teacher and has a Master of Arts in Jewish History from Touro Graduate School of Jewish Studies. She lives in Lakewood, NJ with her husband and children.