Nina L. Kampler

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Dec 23, 2020, 1:16 AM

Giving Life and Giving Death: The Story of A Mother and A Son

Five years ago today, December 22 was also a Tuesday. My son Judah was to hand in his very last final exam of his very last semester of law school, as 2015 wound to a close, then move out of his...

Apr 8, 2020, 10:58 PM

I’m not a doctor, I’m not a rabbi, I’m just a mother who buried a son

We are barraged with incessant news, and we are terrified. We try to stay positive, we share humor in our WhatsApp groups and talk about how lucky we are that we are not foraging rodents in the Polish forests...

Apr 16, 2017, 5:38 PM

Passing over a son’s passing

Illustrative: A young woman sits, face in her hands. (iStock)

Fifteen months after her son committed suicide, she is finding ways to feel less shackled to the pain

Nov 25, 2015, 2:08 PM

Giving Thanks in Germany

Growing up in the simple Philadelphia of the 1960's, without as much as an encyclopedia for reference and just a single television console broadcasting a total of three black-and-white channels, I relied on my imagination to illustrate the stories...

Jul 28, 2014, 4:03 PM

Filing for divorce from the New York Times

July , 2014 Dear New York Times: I first fell in love with you as a freshman at Penn in 1976, using the student discount to afford the luxury of your paper delivery. And for the past 38 years, I have...

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About Me

Nina Kampler is a lawyer and a retail real estate strategist living in Teaneck, New Jersey. She is married to Zvi Marans, and the mother of four children.