Nina Badzin
By Nina Badzin
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Life Santa and the Tooth Fairy — in a Jewish Home
Until my kids starting loosing their teeth, I considered myself a Jew without any Christmas influences. Sure, I’ve always given and received Hanukkah gifts, which one could argue is the most blatant Christmas influence of all. But I’ve draw the line when it comes to buying Christmas-inspired blue tinsel, blue and white lights, and other…
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Life Back to Square One With B’nei Mitzvah
As I listened to friends and family begrudgingly make decisions about Hebrew school for their kids this year, I started a conversation on my personal blog about alternatives to the typical after-school programs. As I mentioned, I was not asking on behalf of my own family. My kids go to a non-Orthodox day school, attend…
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Life The Benefit of the Doubt for The New Year
In Rosh Hashanahs past, I focused on changes that required adding a new practice to my Jewish life. Nine years ago I bought a second set of dishes. Eight years ago I committed to weekly Torah study sessions with a partner. Seven years ago I began using the mikveh. I’ve made less daunting changes, too,…
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Life Stop And Smell the… Boredom?
This is the fourth and final post in a Sisterhood series by Nina Badzin on gadgets, family and work. Turns out I’m not the phone-addict I thought I’d become during the first months of my iPhone experiment. To recap: Before Passover, I decided to stop living as a slave to my phone. I’d heard about…
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Life The First World Problem of Prepping for Camp
There’s a popular hashtag on Twitter called #FirstWorldProblems. People vent about issues lacking true urgency then toss the words #FirstWorldProblems at the end to acknowledge that their problems are the “problems” of the fortunate. The most blatant #FirstWorldProblem of the summer arrives in the form of parents worrying about the details of overnight camp. What…
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Life Curing My iPhone Addiction
This is the third post in a Sisterhood series by Nina Badzin on gadgets, family and work. As I reported last month, I’ve made some progress in cutting my iPhone time in half. I started charging my phone in the kitchen instead of my bedroom, which eliminated any phone use in the early morning and…
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Life Why Is Unplugging So Hard To Do?
This is the second post in a Sisterhood series by Nina Badzin on gadgets, family and work. Immediately after Passover, I announced my intention to cut the cord on technology — specifically, to reduce my iPhone use in half by next spring. Inspired by the themes of the holiday, I decided to stop acting like…
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Life Help! My iPhone Has Taken Over My Life
This is the first post in a Sisterhood series by Nina Badzin on gadgets, family and work. On the Shabbat afternoon before Passover, I received a frantic voicemail from a friend who had texted me an important question earlier that morning. She was worried (and annoyed) when I had not texted back by noon. Was…
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