When a Companion Takes Their Leave
For many years, one of my most personal companions was the mikvah. It arrived in my life when I was young and newly married — a little nervous, a little unsure, clutching a towel and a sense that I was stepping into something ancient and intimate.
Susana Gershuny
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When Healing Meant Letting Go
I was 35 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
At the time, I had four little kids, ages six to one and a half. Overnight, we were thrown into a new world — genetics, surgery, chemo, and radiation.
Shalva Schneider
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A Hysterectomy Tevilla Framework
A framework to use when going to the mikvah at the time of a hysterectomy.
Dr. Naomi Marmon Grumet
Aug 21, 2024
What You Need to Know about This Preventable Cancer
Information about signs of cervical cancer
Yael Maizels
Feb 28, 2024
Tefilla Before Medically Induced Menopause
A personal prayer composed to be said when having a hysterectomy.
Nili Arbel
Dec 7, 2023
From Fear to Freedom
A journey of a carrier of the BRCA 1 gene mutation
Liora Tannenbaum
Dec 6, 2022