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A Reply to a Friend I Haven’t Met Yet

October 29, 2020 Stefanie Levine Cohen

This week, JewishSacredAging.com contributor Carole Leskin shared her thoughts about the how the wearing of masks, necessitated by the current pandemic, exacerbates the isolation and loneliness so many are experiencing during these strangest of times. [Read more…]

NASA image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the Helix Nebula, NGC 7293, sometimes referred to as the "Eye of God" nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, and C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University)
Essays

Discerning the Divine: An Early Experience of God

October 17, 2019 Stefanie Levine Cohen

Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on JewishSacredAging.com. When I was a little girl, maybe 7 or 8 years old, I was sitting in a grassy field enjoying a nice day. I don’t remember if [Read more…]

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The Blessings of Dying A Little Death

October 7, 2019 Stefanie Levine Cohen

In an essay prepared for the JewishSacredAging.com website, Stefanie Levine Cohen writes about how the Jewish High Holidays have changed as she has become an empty-nester. [Read more…]

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Leaving Day

September 25, 2019 Stefanie Cohen

Stefanie writes about facing the reality of moving day for her youngest daughter as she leaves for college. [Read more…]

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Silenced

December 7, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s 1865 and I live in Mississippi. I am a slave. My family has been enslaved as long as I can remember, but that’s just to white men. The kind of slavery I’m talking about [Read more…]

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Lucky Lady

December 5, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s been fifteen years now that I’ve been changing the dining room chandelier light bulbs. Fifteen years of paying the bills and sitting in the driver’s seat of the large blue Buick and cooking for [Read more…]

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Zenia

December 3, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

  When the sun descends from the top of the sky to the place we cannot see beyond the horizon, its glare is greater than human eyes can withstand. Its light reflects off the sea, [Read more…]

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Softening Edges

December 2, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

  [dropcap]I[/dropcap]t was unexpectedly calm at the precipice. Chase studied the yellow-green blades of new grass that poked through the sparse soil that barely covered the jagged rocky edge of the mountain. Delicate and strong. [Read more…]

Stefanie Levine Cohen

Stefanie Levine Cohen studies and writes about birth, death, afterlife and the human condition. Her stories explore moments of transition in characters’ lives and focus particularly on the intersection between the psychological and the spiritual.

How does a person reconcile the need to understand his or her place in the universe with the tug of that person’s emotional truth? Themes of parenting, aging, loss and self-discovery recur throughout her stories and resonate with readers of many stages of life.

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