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In our house, we are both rabbis. We knew we would soon be called to minister to our colleague and friend S, who had struggled for months to live fully despite her cancer.  The call came at 6 am: S had finally taken her last, labored breaths with her two grown daughters by her bedside. One of us…

I held her in my arms, noting the changes. Her bottom eyelashes are beginning to grow. Her hair is starting to fall out. The baby acne is drying up. She wakes up to play now. Her eyes follow me or her siblings or her father. She reached up and grabbed a ring today. I held…

“What’s the point of special education?” my friend asked. She has a daughter with Down syndrome who is the only kid with special needs in her kindergarten class. Her daughter is struggling to keep up. The teacher doesn’t have any training for kids with special needs. “Are we trying to fit a square peg into…

I was a little girl, maybe eight years old. We were Episcopalians at the time, so all my friends from Sunday School had been talking about what they were giving up for Lent. Forty days of deprivation, with lots of speculation as to whether it was cheating to eat (because as a kid, it was…
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