Taking the Spiritual Dive
by Mindy McLeesMikvah for the thoroughly modern woman
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Callan was a slave to Lehman Brothers and her career. What are you enslaved to?
Dealing with someone’s eating disorder made me realize that her struggle was mine as well.
Effective tips for teenage girls in a world where perfection is the new standard.
Even though I felt myself being sucked into an abyss of darkness, I refused to reach out for help.
Are we fulfilling our unique mission, despite the demands in our lives?
Mikvah and motherhood: Frankly, I never thought I'd enter either institution.
I know I am supposed to feel like a repressed, suppressed, oppressed and perhaps depressed victim. But what if I don’t?
Most mothers fight a constant battle between stress and guilt.
Why do we let them dress like that? How to give our daughters genuine power.
Resolving the tension between career ambitions and maternal obligations.
How the media is destroying our self image and what we can do about it.
What's a nice Jewish girl like me doing in a place like this?
Bringing postpartum depression out of the closet.
Modesty is as much about revealing as it is about covering up.
Even the terrifying enlightenment bestowed by Shigeko couldn't teach me that we're most human when we're most divine.
I may lack a husband and children, but that's no reason for self-pity.
There is no limit to how much love and compassion can emanate from one human heart.
Although often at ideological loggerheads, both feminism and traditional Judaism share a common goal -- upholding and ensuring the dignity of women.
"Yes, you can have it all, but you can never have it all at once."
An author finds herself at the frontlines of a new generational battle.
It's long past time for women to stand up for who we truly are.
A busy mother goes on a solo vacation and finds answers to some tough questions.
How can I say goodbye when I never even had the chance to really say hello?
How can we get free of the petty tyrannies of our own female vanity?
The Da Vinci Code gets Judaism's view of the Sacred Feminine all wrong.
Yes, I too long for a child of my own to hold, but who am I to challenge God and ask 'Why me?'
Going to the mikvah became an obsession. I wanted in even if I didn't know why.
More and more women are choosing to conquer the world by staying home to raise their children.
The feminist movement has failed to recognize another, more subtle form of power: internal power.
I had no idea what was happening to me. I only knew that the worst thing in the world was to be conscious.
Modern Feminism created a society in which women's contributions are largely unrecognized.
The first human was created androgynous, giving us insight into male-female relationships.
Why can't I affirm the assertion of others that traditional Judaism looks down at women?
A Jewish princess does not wait for her prince.