Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jewish mothers have created ways to celebrate childbirth with rituals old and new. Pal Pillai/AFP via Getty Images Reading the ...

The mitzvah of brit milah, ritual circumcision, is among the oldest continually practiced rituals in the world. For almost four thousand years, beginning with our Patriarch Abraham, almost every ...

(The Conversation) — Recent generations of Jewish women have looked to reinvent rituals marking the most meaningful moments in their lives, especially childbirth and motherhood. Women are not, however ...

Reading the Torah, there is no doubt about motherhood’s important role in Jewish literature and life. Women are not, however, expected to place motherhood ahead of their own well-being. For example, ...