Rachael Wurtman, at The Blogs

Feb 18, 2021, 8:53 PM

I first held my fourth child almost eleven and a half years ago. She stared at my eyes. We rocked together in the sunroom, in a padded pink and blue nursery chair. Weeks later, her long golden nose and...

Jan 25, 2021, 10:55 PM

I started to glue together the pieces of my heart

I’m not going to sugarcoat it. Parenting an adult daughter who has Multiple Sclerosis (MS) has been painful, scary, and lonely. Especially doing so as a Jewish single parent. The 4th anniversary of her diagnosis is coming up in April, just...

Aug 4, 2020, 10:43 PM

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Chasing a pink balloon

No one chooses to become resilient. You never want to hear 'I don’t know how you managed.' But I did. I learned how from my daughter

Jul 14, 2020, 7:28 PM

Planning to move back to Israel during pandemic

I am in pre re-aliyah limbo. The countdown has started. Days sprint past at a breathtaking pace. Flooded with memories, I package them in airtight containers and store them. The first time my small Jerusalem sabras kicked piles of orange...

Jun 9, 2020, 7:55 AM

Police autism training

Iyad Halak's death was a tragedy. Border police shot him last week while he was walking to his special needs school. According to multiple reports in The Times of Israel, police ordered him to halt because he appeared to hold...

Jun 3, 2020, 6:57 PM

Do not ask me to deny her a ventilator

My pre-teen was hunched over his cell phone, elbows touching knees, thumbs dancing across the screen of his iPhone. I stood in the aisle in the Coolidge Corner Theatre, scanning the crowds for a glimpse of my aunt and...

About Me

Rachael is a journalist who lived in Jerusalem between 1987 - 1996. She wrote the ‘Inclusion Matters’ column for the Jewish Advocate and has published articles for Honest Reporting , Friendship Circle and the Parent Professional Advocacy League. She writes for Jewish Boston. A former attorney, she has a master’s in child development. She was an early intervention specialist and special education advocate.