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Brown's memoir is good. It would be reassuring to parents and siblings of autistic children, and is especially helpful in cultivating compassion in outsiders for the families of autistic children.
So what if I am fat? So what? Every day I am grappling with that question.
Remember that there is a higher reality in the world. The material here and now is not all there is. Nobody can ever be perfect in the material world, but we darn well can live life with purpose and with meaning.
A story about letting myself and other people off the hook as much as it is a story about harnessing up under the yoke of Heaven. It's a story about hosiery and one fateful phone call.
The usual outcome of being nine months pregnant is to have a baby. Baruch Hashem, I had one.
Among the surprises of pregnancy that I've experienced has been a flood of gratitude. Gratitude for everything, because pregnancy has made every small thing seem very, very important.
The laws prohibiting speaking or believing loshon hara, motzi shem ra, and rechilus are some of the hardest in Torah to keep.
I had only published a handful controversial articles, but the ones I had published seemed to elicit such huge and negative responses that I wanted out.
It's time to get happy: Mishe. Nichnas. Adar. Y'all ready for this?
I'm not too interested in the question of whether or not you can separate Jews from Judaism. I see the issue as much more basic: The clothes -- the black and white, the kippot, the hats, the wigs, the skirts, the stockings -- they are clothes, people.
