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Jordana Horn

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Jordana Horn is a contributing editor to Kveller. She is a journalist, lawyer, writer, mother, travel aficionado, and self-declared karaoke superstar. She is the New York correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Forward. She is working on her first novel.

Posts by Jordana Horn:

• Sep 3 2013
  My Baby Got Stitches & I’m Still Recuperating

  Holding down your 10-month-old daughter as she screams at the top of her lungs while someone sews her eyebrow back together is not an experience I would recommend to anyone. And yet…welcome to motherhood! There are many things I can … Continue reading →

 

• Aug 22 2013
  You Are Your Own Birth Advocate

  “Are laboring and birthing women treated abusively in the hospital?” Wait…what? My first thought on reading that sentence was, “That doesn’t even make sense.” I’m familiar with abusive relationships, as well as with labor and birthing. This sentence, from an … Continue reading →

 

• Aug 15 2013
  Rosh Hashanah Resolution: Less Frustration, More Joy

  To gear up for the High Holidays this year, we’re asking our writers and readers for their Rosh Hashanah Resolution. Here’s one from contributing editor Jordana Horn.  I have so many new years’ resolutions that it is hard to whittle it down to … Continue reading →

 

• Aug 14 2013
  What the Opt-Out Generation Really Wants

  I am a non-practicing lawyer, a freelance journalist, an aspiring novelist (where does the time go, anyway? Let me look in my 10-month-old’s mouth to see if she ate it like she eats everything else) and mother of four, soon … Continue reading →

 

• Aug 9 2013
  The Childfree Life vs. The Childfull Life

  It must have been amusing for people to see me reading my copy of Time Magazine’s issue in praise of the childfree life: a pregnant woman having second thoughts, perhaps? But after having read it, I think this cover story … Continue reading →

 

• Aug 1 2013
  Baby Sister Writes a Letter to Her Brother at Camp

  When Jordana heard that one of her sons was homesick at camp and missing, of all people, his baby sister Orli, she quickly banged out this poem from Orli to tell him it was okay to miss her and that … Continue reading →

 

• Jul 25 2013
  The Kids Go to Overnight Camp & Mom Freaks Out

  Midnight, and the moonlight painted a white stripe across the bottom of the bed. It was a quiet summer night. It was only if you listened closely that you could hear that most tell-tale of all camp-related noises: the muffled … Continue reading →

 

• Jul 22 2013
  Overnight Camp is About More Than Just Having Fun

  Many, many people posted a link on Facebook to a Huffington Post Parents blogpost entitled, “Open Letter to My Daughter, the Camper.” In the piece, which is certainly nothing if not loving and fun, the father writing gives advice to … Continue reading →

 

• Jul 17 2013
  Help! My 2-Year-Old is Waking Up the Entire House at All Hours of the Night

  Remember that “day in the life” feature, where Kveller contributing editors were writing their “typical” days so as to reveal “how we do it?” Well, I decided to try my hand at writing one–and then I quit. I quit because … Continue reading →

 

• Jul 15 2013
  Causeless Hatred Can Only be Fought with Causeless Love

  The thing about “causeless hatred” is that it sounds like something that other people do. Causeless hatred is something other people do–because it’s something that is obviously wrong. And we aren’t people who would do something obviously wrong. We’re thoughtful … Continue reading →

 

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