by Carla Naumburg | Sep 24, 2015 | Kveller.com
“Mommy, are you going to fast this year for Yom Kippur?” My 7-year-old asked me this question on the way home from school the other day, just hours after I had decided to tackle the question of fasting for my next Jewish Mother Project. I told her I wasn’t sure and...
by Carla Naumburg | Sep 17, 2015 | Kveller.com
Holy crap, you guys. I cooked with my kids. And it was AWESOME. The kind of awesome that gives you faith in your children and the future of humanity and makes you think for just one tiny second that perhaps you aren’t screwing up this whole parenting thing nearly as...
by Carla Naumburg | Sep 9, 2015 | Kveller.com
I cannot name all of the months in the Jewish year, but I can tell you that we are currently in the month of Elul. I’ve known for awhile now that these last weeks of summer are a time of reflection and teshuvah (a word that is often translated as repentance, but I...
by Carla Naumburg | Aug 25, 2015 | Kveller.com
From the full post over at Kveller.com: “I envision The Jewish Mother Project as a cross between Abigail Pogrebin’s blog on the Jewish Daily Forward, “18 Holidays: 1 Wondering Jew” and “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin. I’ll spend the year diving more...
by Carla Naumburg | May 22, 2015 | Kveller.com
For the past five weeks, our family has gathered each Friday night to sing a blessing over an empty corner. We sold our small white china cabinet with the door that never quite closed properly a couple of weeks before we put our house on the market. We took down our...
by Carla Naumburg | May 5, 2015 | Kveller.com
I have come to believe that there are two kinds of Jews: those who are always on time, and those who are never on time. I’m a yekke, a descendent of a long line of German Jews who believe that if you are on time, you’re actually five minutes late. I spent the early...
