Vlog #14: “Lost Footage of Chanukah Party Found”!
Sure, you know Mayim Bialik from her work on “The Big Bang Theory” and “Blossom.” But here’s Mayim as you’ve never seen her before…This silly sitcom’s special holiday episode has everything:MayimA...
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Don’t Sweat It: Living With Hyperhidrosis
You’ve worked up a good sweat after a workout or a hike on a hot summer day. In most cases, sweat is a completely normal bodily function designed to cool a person down after physical exertion. But have...
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When the Rabbi’s Wife is Diagnosed With Cancer
One year ago this past September, I stood before my congregation at Beth El in Durham, NC and tried to teach. But my heart was with my wife Jennifer at home. I cannot speak for Jennifer – ever but...
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Married to an “Illegal Immigrant”: Our Family Fears
[Photo: Guest writer Alejandra’s children] I have been married for ten years. My husband and I met when he was sixteen years old and I was twelve. I was visiting my best friend’s family when he arrived...
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Confessions of a Cancer Caregiver
[Photo: Amanda and her late husband on their wedding day] I was 28 years old when my fiancé was diagnosed with colon cancer. We headed into the emergency room just two months before our wedding, he was...
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Cutting the Cords of Toxic Relationships
[Photo: “Release” by Sophia] When Facebook gave me the opportunity to post my favorite reflections from 2016, I hit delete. 2016 is one year I would prefer not to revisit. Like many women, I found...
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Donating My Kidney
More than a year ago, I made one of the most consequential decisions of my life: more important than pursuing a course of doctoral studies, or becoming a social justice activist, or even being ordained...
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No Selfies at the Holocaust Memorial, Please
[Photo: A photo taken by the author of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin] “How much of the Holocaust do you want on this trip?” I asked my boyfriend while planning our trip to Berlin last November. This...
View ArticleSave A Child’s Heart Improves Worldwide Pediatric Care
Save A Child’s Heart is Israel’s largest international humanitarian organization. SACH improves pediatric care in developing countries around the world by performing heart surgery on children in Israel...
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Black History: 8 African Americans to Follow Now
[Photo: The author snapped a shot of this Harriett Tubman memorial on a recent trip to Harlem, NYC] In case you hadn’t heard, Black History Month is now National African American History Month. (I...
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The Upside-Down of Purim
[Photo: Queen Esther denouncing Haman / Ernest Normand] Purim. Everything gets turned upside down on this holiday. Indeed. Purim is a celebration unlike any other in our religious tradition. It is our...
View ArticleMy Famous Passover Chart
[Photo: Mayim’s Passover preparation chart] I would like to applaud the Forward for tackling my Pesach chart/graph/list. They do an excellent job in their analysis but some questions indeed are left...
View ArticleAnother Year of Shifts, Transitions, Grief and Dreams
Today is April 9. The ninth day of the fourth month. The day is full. Passover, the Jewish festival of Freedom celebrating the Exodus from Egypt -the transformation from slavery to liberation – begins...
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Finding Deeper Connections to Easter and Passover
With springtime arriving, many people’s thoughts turn to this season’s holidays, notably Easter, or – for Jews like me – Passover. I love Passover; I gravitate to the active rituals and find joy in the...
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Living with Fibromyalgia
Every day we see people and we ask “how are you?” There are days when I really want to answer, “right now I am in so much pain that my clothes are hurting me, and my hair is burning my scalp, I didn’t...
View ArticleGrief and Gratitude, Hope and Despair: Happy Mother’s Day
As the lemon-syrup flavored seltzer escaped its glass in a freedom burst of effervescent bubbles and shards of glass, baptizing my 2010 MacBook Pro, I knew it was my fault. Not just for having thirst,...
View ArticleMy Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: Love, Marriage and Mental Illness
In this special interview, Mayim talks with author Mark Lukach, about his book, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward, which details his experience living with and loving his wife through the different...
View ArticleIBD Awareness Day: Crohn’s Disease and Colitis Roundtable
Photo Credit While gastric distress is generally played for laughs on TV and in movies, the truth is that having an Irritable Bowel Disease (IBD) like Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis is anything...
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Finding the Reasons for Prader-Willi Syndrome
“I am walking down the hallway at school. I hear whispers and know they are about me. I find a scab on my arm, one of many, and begin to pick it until I draw blood. It’s actually a relief. At the...
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On a Scavenger Hunt, Finding Myself
[Photo: A participant submitting a wedding ring for the hunt] I recently experienced something that made my soul sing and restored my faith in humanity. Over the past ten years, I went from working...
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