Melissa Langsam Braunstein
By Melissa Langsam Braunstein
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Life A Rosh Hashanah Plea for More Conversation About Infertility
She laughed. When our matriarch Sarah heard that she would become a mother within the next year, she laughed. And who wouldn’t? The whole notion seemed drawn from the realm of fantasy. After all, Sarah was already 90-years-old. But as G-d rhetorically asks Abraham in Genesis 18:13, “Is anything beyond Hashem?” Pregnancy and (safe) childbirth…
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Life Is ‘Verily’ the Future of Women’s Magazines?
If you’re a woman who loves reading about fashion, culture and relationships — a woman who finds that Cosmopolitan and Glamour don’t speak to you — you should know about Verily magazine. It’s not your typical women’s magazine, and it’s motto proves that fact: “Less of who you should be, more of who you are.”…
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Life Raising a True Beauty
Would you rather be beautiful and stupid or ugly and brilliant?
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Life Cupid in a Kippah
On Valentine’s Day, one is absolutely the loneliest number. It helps if you can make plans with some single friends, but most people would prefer to be out with their perfect person. Valentine’s Day isn’t our holiday, religiously speaking — Jews have Tu B’Av — but it is an American holiday, and Valentine’s Day nicely…
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Life The Jews in ‘Suits’
Shortly after graduating from college in 2000, I found myself living and interning in Austin, Texas. Someone apparently mentioned to the friendly policeman who worked by my office that I was a Member of the Tribe. He was thrilled; he’d never met a New York Jew — or any Jew — before. He lived 100…
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Life Who Needs Baby Albums Anymore?
Our album is like the tortoise in a hare’s world
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Life Judging Ourselves As Parents
The Jewish New Year is a time for judgment and reflection
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Life Jewish in Geneva
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