by Webmaster | May 5, 2015 | Identity
My family has always been the foundation of my life. I have very strong bonds with both my parents. Over the years, I have come to appreciate how my parents raised me based on their life experiences. My parents have been married for 33 years, and I always look to them...
by Webmaster | Apr 28, 2015 | Identity
This is the final in a short series on adoption in Jewish families. Enjoy! In 1988, I had my entire life completely worked out. I was ordained as a cantor, married the love of my life and moved from New York to a community just west of Boston. We would live in...
by Webmaster | Apr 23, 2015 | Identity
“Ima, I’m eating breakfast. It tastes like home. I want to live here forever.” The simplicity and joy of my daughter’s phone call from her first morning in Israel keeps replaying in my head. It is a balm on my soul and a window into the blessing that is the State of...
by Webmaster | Apr 21, 2015 | Identity
“Did you like bacon before you were Jewish?” This question from one or both of my sons comes up periodically, at the dinner table, or in the car. There often seems no clear context to the question. It just pops up, now and then. I generally answer “Yes, I did, but I...
by Webmaster | Apr 15, 2015 | Identity
To My Beautiful Son, Two years ago today we met for the first time. You were two days old, and we had known about you for just one day, since the adoption agency director had come to find me the day before to tell me that a baby had been born whom she believed was...
by Webmaster | Apr 8, 2015 | Identity
As a child I was pretty dissatisfied with my hair. It was neither straight nor curly. It was neither blond nor brown. It didn’t look like the hair of the women I saw on TV or in magazines. It didn’t swish in a ponytail and bits always stuck up on picture day. Years...
