L.B. is L.B. no more. This morning at his bris, we announced his name: Akiva. His namesake is Rabbi Akiva, one of the great Torah scholars in Jewish History. While I would love to wax poetic about why we chose the name right now, I have a houseful of hopped-up kids clamoring for french […]

Of the many tactics employed by the Soviet Police Force during the Stalin Era, sleep deprivation was one of the most torturous for those under arrest. As Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin described it: “In the head of the interrogated prisoner, a haze begins to form. His spirit is wearied to death, his legs […]

We are thrilled to announce that after a long, 40-week wait, LB has finally arrived…and HE IS GORGEOUS! At 6:26 p.m. on Thursday, April 29th, all 7 lbs., 12 oz. and 21 inches of him made a (VERY) quick entrance into the world right in our living room! We are amazed, wowed, overjoyed and […]

For those of you on the edge of your seats, I hate to tell you that L.B. has yet to make an appearance. I’ve been having some intense contractions, but nothing too exciting. My midwife Becca will be by in a bit so we’ll see if she thinks anything’s brewing.

The waiting, meanwhile, has […]

All I have to say is, God Bless Jamie Oliver.

I finally got around to watching his show, “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution”, in which he spends 3 months in Huntington, West Virginia (the most unhealthy town in the U.S., according to the Center for Disease Control) and attempts to teach people how to eat […]

If Yonah had any hankering to become some kind of water-based superhero, those aspirations were drowned by our visit to our friend Shari’s the other day. I love visiting Shari for a number of reasons. Besides her company, of course, she has three fantastic kids in their early teens who are happy to entertain […]

So I guess I’m going to be pregnant for the rest of my life.

I really thought this weekend was going to be it. I figured I’d go into labor over Shabbos and we’d call everyone Saturday night and say, “Surprise! Baby’s Here!”. Not so much.

I know I’m only officially 39 weeks but […]

Who’d have thought it? Here I am, living out a dream in one of the most beautiful places the world, and yet I found myself overcome with a wave of homesickness today.

I was chatting on Skype with my sister Shira, who was telling me that it’s already getting cold in Boston. Despite my […]

For some reason, I was under the impression that Israel was some kind of third world country where the cost of living was laughably low. I was enchanted by the thought of heading to the shuk (outdoor market) and trading bits of string or an old Debbie Gibson tape for my weekly groceries. Not […]