THE FORWARD-October 06, 2009 A Mother-to-Be Ponders Giving Birth Abroad By Deborah Kolben When I moved to Berlin last year, I settled into a Bohemian-chic neighborhood in what was formerly East Berlin. Despite Germany’s declining birth rate — the once decaying buildings here, where coal ovens and shared bathrooms have been replaced with stainless steel [...]
Archive for the ‘Jewish’ Category
My Obstetrician’s Rx: Liverwurst
October 8, 2009
Why Orthodox Women Are Choosing Natural Birth
August 12, 2009
The Forward—August 12, 2009 Looking for a doctor to deliver your baby when you’re 30 weeks pregnant isn’t exactly ideal. But when I moved back to Brooklyn earlier this month, after living in Europe for the past year, that’s exactly what I had to do. In my perfect world I wanted to find a caring [...]
A Wife, Down and Out in Berlin
September 18, 2008
THE FORWARD — September 18, 2008 This Must Be the Place By Anna Winger Riverhead Books, 303 pages, $24.95. Days after moving to Berlin from Brooklyn this summer, I fell into a deep funk. It was the kind of can’t-get-out-of-bed depression where at 5 p.m. you realize that you haven’t left the apartment all day [...]
The Matzo Show on Rivington Street
January 6, 2008
THE NEW YORK TIMES — January 6, 2008 ALL day long, people ask Leonides Negron if he is Jewish. Mr. Negron, a 46-year-old Puerto Rican, works at the venerable Streit’s matzo factory on Rivington Street on the Lower East Side, handling the stacks of steaming flat breads as they emerge from the 900-degree, 72-foot-long oven. [...]
