I am a career military officer and a Jewish mom. One of the biggest challenges I have faced in...
Jewish Military Mom’s Message to her Daughter at her Bat Mitzvah

I am a career military officer and a Jewish mom. One of the biggest challenges I have faced in...
By: Danielle Sarah Storch In just a few days it will be the dreaded back to school shopping sale...
I am posing with one hand on my hip and a smile on my face, sun glaring in my face. The...
I am a career military officer and a Jewish mom. One of the biggest challenges I have faced in balancing those two identities was moving from New York to...
By: Danielle Sarah Storch In just a few days it will be the dreaded back to school shopping sale season. I like to ignore all of those back to school discount...
I am posing with one hand on my hip and a smile on my face, sun glaring in my face. The photographer tells me what to do and I follow her instructions...
Read Part 8 Here February-March 2015 Waiting implies sitting around doing nothing but you know…waiting. In reality, since the day of the donation, January 16...
The term “baal teshuva” roughly translates, from Hebrew, to “master of repentance.” The term refers to a goal, not our actual state, rather, the asymptote we...
This article was originally written 9 years ago, on the eve of my oldest son’s wedding This weeks parasha is Parashat Re’eh, from the root word to see...
I wasn’t always frum. I didn’t always eat kosher. I didn’t always dress tznius. Growing up, I had my favorite pair of jeans and loved the McDonald’s double...
New babies are such an exciting time for the new parents, and when they are your close friends, all you want to do is celebrate them and their new bundle of...
Read Part 7 Here January 16, 2014 After going to sleep early, Rosie and I were up by 6:30. We dressed quickly and for comfort, knowing the day would be long...
Read Part 6 here Mid January 2015: The Neupogen arrived as scheduled, and was refrigerated in my office. With the exception of my scheduled pregnancy tests, I...