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Adina Kay-Gross

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Adina Kay-Gross is one of Kveller's contributing editors.She earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. She has taught creative writing, composition and literature at Columbia University, Hofstra University, and Yeshiva University and she currently works as a writing consultant at Stern College and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute for Religion. Adina's writing has been published in a variety of magazines and literary journals. Adina just moved from Brooklyn to the 'burbs, where she lives with her husband and twin girls.

Posts by Adina Kay-Gross:

• Jul 5 2012
  Interviews with Interesting Jews: Dr. Kimberly Noble

  A study published earlier this week claims that singleton babies born at 37 and 38 weeks may not do as well in school. As you can imagine, the study got quite a lot of attention. Dr. Kimberly Noble, the lead … Continue reading →

 

• Jun 29 2012
  Will the Suburbs Make My Kids Boring?

  My parents (like many, many Jewish parents before them) are partial to telling me that things happen for a reason (or more accurately, that just about everything is bashert). So it was no surprise that following the heartache of finding … Continue reading →

 

• Jun 18 2012
  Jogging Made Me Cry

  I’ve been making lots of declarations lately (I’m not an adult! I AM an adult!) and here’s another: I had not seriously been tested as a mother until recently. I know, I know, you think I’m exaggerating. You’re thinking, how … Continue reading →

 

• Jun 4 2012
  Am I Really Old Enough to Own a House?

  So…we did it. After blogging here on my hesitations about the ‘burbs, after swearing up and down that this wouldn’t be us and flapping our gums at anyone who would listen–after pooh-poohing the pool club memberships and the landscapers and … Continue reading →

 

• Apr 26 2012
  On Yom Ha’atzmaut, I’m Longing for Israel

  When I was young, Yom Ha’atzmaut meant one thing: the Israeli Day Parade in New York City (and hot pretzels. So two things.)

 

• Apr 19 2012
  The Accidental Stay-at-Home Mom

  Here’s the thing. I never really planned to be a stay-at-home mom.

 

• Apr 5 2012
  Bringing the Seder to the Hospital

  My family’s been anticipating all being together for the seder for weeks–we’ve got the brisket, the new haggadahs, even the plastic frogs. But we just found out there won’t be a seder after all.

 

• Mar 26 2012
  How an Orthodox College Helped Me Face My Fear of Pink

  When I was pregnant, the thought of having girls terrified me.

 

• Feb 7 2012
  In What Town Will We Find “People Like Us?”

  I just want to find a house that looks like the one Zeek and Camille live in, on the show Parenthood.

 

• Jan 20 2012
  Friday Night: Rituals That Aren’t So Hard to Keep

  I hadn’t meant to establish our Friday morning coffee run as a “ritual,” but it’s become one.

 

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