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Essays

Warriors Are Allowed to Cry

February 7, 2022 Stefanie Levine Cohen

“Being all-in, all the time, was the only way I knew how to parent, and it was what my soul required,” writes Stefanie Levine Cohen. [Read more…]

Essays

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…]

Essays

On the Passage of Time

November 18, 2019 Stefanie Levine Cohen

Reflecting on the 100th anniversary of her grandmother’s birthday, Stefanie Levine Cohen explores how we perceive the passage of time. [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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Essays

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…]

Essays

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…]

Essays

Evening Light

August 23, 2019 Stefanie Levine Cohen

Stefanie explores the physiological and psychological discomfort of evening shadows. [Read more…]

Essays

Who Am I, and Other Pesky Questions That Don’t Go Away

July 24, 2019 Stefanie Cohen

Originally posted in Jewish Sacred Aging July 2019 Every part of me knows that healthy transitions are wonderful things—if life isn’t moving forward, it’s moving backward or stopping altogether, neither of which is good. Still, [Read more…]

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Essays

The Morning After

November 9, 2016 Stefanie Cohen

I am struggling to maintain my world view. I am distraught, my faith in humanity deeply shaken. I am terrified of the pain that will be inflicted upon all of us, but especially those least [Read more…]

Essays

Truth Be Told

January 16, 2016 Stefanie Levine Cohen

This Fall, I had the privilege of teaching a memoir writing course for the Salzman Foundation Life Long Learning Institute at the Katz JCC in Cherry Hill, NJ. The class, entitled Memoir: Telling Your Story, [Read more…]

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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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