Amy Klein
By Amy Klein
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News Jewish Women Are Freezing Their Eggs More Than Ever — And Think You Should Too
When “Tamar” was 32, her mother suggested she freeze her eggs. Actually, it was her mother’s gynecologist who’d suggested that she tell her daughter to do it. “I flipped out. I really did,” said Tamar, who preferred not to give her real name. Her mother, Tamar said, isn’t usually the stereotypical intrusive “Jewish mother.” “I…
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Life Is Infertility An Eggcellent Adventure? If Thousands Listen In — Then Yes.
Talking to Matt Mira and Doree Shafrir is like immersing yourself in a warm bubble bath with a glass of wine: it feels soothing and buoyant at the same time. That’s probably how their tens of thousands of listeners feel when tuning into their podcast, Matt and Doree’s Eggcellent Adventure about their fertility journey trying…
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Life What Do We Want for Hanukkah? Gifts That Make Us Chuckle
Let’s face it: This holiday season, in a time of Marie Kondo-style downsizing, most of us don’t need much of anything. Instead of investing in the latest tech gadget or toy, let your gifts at least be funny. And if not funny, then at least cute. Here are eight ideas for your family, friends, frenemies…
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Life How To Teach Your Toddler About Hanukkah — When Their Teacher Is Talking About Christmas
How much would you pay for Hanukkah guilt? No, not gelt, the gold-covered chocolate coins strewn about on this Festival of Lights, but actual guilt. You know, the Jewish kind. I asked myself this as I stood in a packed Judaica store on the Upper West Side, one of the dozens of New Yorkers who…
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Life After Many Miscarriages, I Didn’t Want To Complain About Motherhood, Ever. And Then I Became A Mother.
“I was so tired I just wanted to throttle her,” one mom said with a little laugh to show she wasn’t planning on harming her toddler. “And then when I finally went to the living room she’d spilled rice all over the floor!” The moms at the party nodded in complicity, adding their own tales…
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Life How To Help Someone Who Had A Pregnancy Or Infant Loss
When Shoshana Traum lost her first baby at only five days old — after going into early labor at 27 weeks — she had no idea that there was a support group for infant loss. “When we left the hospital we didn’t know we needed help, that this would mess us up for a long,…
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Life Am I Wrong To Drive On Shabbos To Visit My Orthodox Family?
“Do not drive here on Shabbos,” my father said, using his Brooklyn, Ashkenazi-style of pronouncing the Sabbath, which I now call Shabbat lest my secular Israeli husband make fun of me for my old ghetto ways. I was planning on driving from Manhattan to his house to see my relatives, who were in for Sukkot….
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Life Q&A With Jewish Founder Of ‘Pregnantish’
For the last six years, dating and relationship expert Andrea Syrtash has been undergoing fertility treatment to try to have a baby with her husband. But the author (of “He’s Just Not Your Type and That’s a Good Thing” and “Cheat on Your Husband (with Your Husband”) hadn’t come public about her efforts until recently,…
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