First Black Female Rabbi is Proud Single Mother

by DK

12 comments

1 Annie { 05.19.08 at 9:52 am }

I don’t get what you mean by that title.

2 Sarah/froylein { 05.19.08 at 11:33 am }

I thought one can only be proud of things one has achieved.

3 DK { 05.19.08 at 11:46 am }

Annie, I changed it, with some critical input from Sarah/froylein.

4 HalfSours { 05.19.08 at 7:05 pm }

“I thought one can only be proud of things one has achieved.”

Being a single mother isn’t a reason to be proud? Froylein- I hope you never have to be put in the same situation, either through death, divorce, or bad choices. I have four single mothers in my family, including my own, who became that way through the circumstances of the first two. Let me tell you, they achieve more than Neil Armstrong’s whole NASA team every day.

5 HalfSours { 05.19.08 at 7:05 pm }

including my own mother*

6 suitepotato { 05.19.08 at 8:10 pm }

I didn’t see a link but Google got me there.

Short reply space length URL here: http://tinyurl.com/3ocopg

My only other comment is that she probably could not walk a mile in my town with getting hit on which is a phrase you probably never before associated with a rabbi.

7 suitepotato { 05.19.08 at 8:11 pm }

“without” getting hit on

8 DK { 05.19.08 at 8:30 pm }

Halfsours, should this rabbi then also be proudly divorced?

9 HalfSours { 05.19.08 at 8:53 pm }

Not proud of the divorce, or being a divorce- although from what I understand living through a divorce without seriously losing it , though not as trying as perhaps a tornado in Mayanmar, is quite a feat. Froylein is correct in that you can’t be proud of circumstances you yourself didn’t facilitate. But not giving credit (like the warrant to be proud) to somebody who thrives, or hell even functions in those kinds of adverse circumstances is cynical and kharmically stingy.

10 Sarah/froylein { 05.19.08 at 11:59 pm }

Just typed a longer comment, but it disappeared. Will need to get to it again after work, but from a professional point of view, my focus are the children, so that leaves a lot to be said.

11 Annie { 05.20.08 at 9:22 am }

I think that you can be proud of things beyond your control, just as you can be ashamed of things beyond your control. It’s about taking ownership of the situation.

12 mohammed { 05.20.08 at 1:24 pm }

I think the only box she didn’t check off on the liberal feel good list was lesbian.
What’s to be proud of being a single mother at 45? There are a lot of people that managed that by 14.
Btw, DK, she won’t be a rabbi for at least another year.

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