by Carla Naumburg | Aug 18, 2016 | Cognoscenti, Writing
My daughters and I recently attended a family yoga class together. After a little downward dog and cat and cow, we transitioned into tree pose. I shifted my weight onto my right foot, lifted my left foot off the ground and rested it against the inside of my right...
by Carla Naumburg | Jul 14, 2016 | Kveller.com
I’m not a terribly spiritual person. Even so, I wasn’t surprised by how much I enjoyed Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg’s latest book, “Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting.” I...
by Carla Naumburg | Jun 3, 2016 | Kveller.com
My daughter’s siddur ceremony was a few weeks ago. She’s in first grade at a Jewish Day School, and after spending the year studying tefillah, or prayer, the entire class got their own prayer books. In our school, as in many other day schools, the parents’ job is to...
by Carla Naumburg | May 5, 2016 | Kveller.com
I spent the first three decades of my life looking for the answer to this sentence: “I am ________________.” Yes, I know. I am a woman. But I have never played the stereotypical “female” very well; I was a tomboy as a child, and even now, I don’t cook, I’m not...
by Carla Naumburg | Apr 25, 2016 | Kveller.com
My husband and I hosted the second night seder this year. Even though I don’t cook and can’t read the Hebrew in the Haggadah well enough to lead, I do know this: Seders should be fun and engaging for the kiddos, and we each need to see ourselves as though we were...
by Carla Naumburg | Apr 18, 2016 | Kveller.com
I started the Jewish Mother Project last fall with the declaration that, “My goal is not to become a perfect Jewish mother, but the ‘Best Carla’ I can be for my daughters.” And then I confidently marched off in the opposite direction, following a path that had very...
