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Jan 17, 2026, 10:06 PM

Snow Over the Ghetto, Budapest 1945

Common graves in the Dohány Street Synagogue courtyard
(Photo courtesy of the author)

Until the day she died, whenever it snowed, she remembered that winter in Budapest in 1945, when the snow lay thick across the rooftops like eiderdown, deceptively soft. As it fell, she thought of Frau Holle and the old...

Dec 31, 2025, 6:56 AM

Beyond the Unencumbered Trainee

Two Residencies: Motherhood as Clinical Mastery For a full-time Doctor of Nursing Practice student specializing in midwifery and a mother of four young children, winter break is less of a vacation and more of a step-up in acuity; the demands...

Dec 20, 2025, 6:07 AM

The Shame of Silence, the Necessity of Rest

I didn’t expect to encounter open political hostility toward Jews during my graduate nursing program. But that is exactly what happened; casually, publicly, and without anyone blinking. I was walking behind a preceptor when I noticed it: a pin on...

Dec 18, 2025, 7:10 AM

The Sacred Choreography of Modern Birth

Neshama_Midwife

Tracing the Arc of the Neshama: The Sacred Choreography of Modern Birth In the delivery room, the air is a heady mix of sweat, lavender, and antiseptic. Battery-flicker candles glowing next to a semi-circle of crystals, as a tocodynamometer traces...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Nov 19, 2025, 12:29 AM

Where was the Beit Midrash of Shem and Ever?

In Parshat Toldot, when Rivka finally conceives, she doesn’t understand what is happening inside of her womb (Breisheet 25:22): The children struggled together within her. She said “If this is so, why am I living?” So she went (vatelech) to...

Reuven Chaim Klein

Sep 13, 2025, 10:49 PM

Fearsome Days / No Fear – dachil, azchil, and chil

In the Chazzan’s opening supplication of Shacharit Shemoneh Esrei on the first day of Rosh HaShanah, the poetic introduction reads: “I am scared as I open my dialog to extract deeds therefore I trepidate (azchil)... / Power me and strengthen...

Jul 30, 2025, 7:11 AM

A Word Too Sharp for the Womb

For two decades, I remained silent. I had survived, and survival was supposed to be enough. It was what everyone wanted for me, what halacha allowed, what medicine insisted upon. But no one told me what came after. What...

Jul 28, 2025, 12:27 AM

HaPlilistyot – A Review and a Lesson

'HaPlilistiot' is a show that provides two models for the modern liberated Israeli woman – CHOOSE WISELY. Recently, the TV show 'HaPlilistiot', From the production house of Slutzky Communication, aired on Netflix. The TV show premiered on 12th of march...

Walter G. Wasser

Oct 23, 2024, 9:25 PM

Combining Faith and IVF for Parenthood

In today’s Daf Yomi (Bava Batra 119b), we read about the daughters of Tzelofchad, whose righteousness led to miraculous childbirths, even at an older age: "Rabbi Yochanan said in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Yohai: The daughters of Tzelofchad...

Reuven Chaim Klein

May 5, 2024, 1:18 AM

Nuances of Teeth

The word shein appears 55 times in the Bible, mostly in reference to a “tooth” as found inside the mouth of a person or animal. In this essay, we explore a whole litany of other words in Hebrew and...

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