Lauren Libbert

My JC ad gave us a friendship for life

An advert for a travel companion could have fallen flat - but instead it led to a 20 year relationship, and a podcast

Visiting my mother's grave

'It is a space carved out just for us; mother and daughter; a relationship that moved from the physical to the spiritual two years ago and yet one I still cherish and find incredibly cathartic.'

My first — and last — trip to Berlin

How do you feel about visiting Germany?

Living with MS: Hope at last

Gideon Schulman has lived with Multiple Sclerosis for 16 years, and it is gradually worsening. But a new treatment may offer hope, he tells Lauren Libbert.

Cussing kids? Here's some help

Has your little angel discovered the joy of rude words? Lauren Libbert has some advice.

Modern Batmitzvahs: girls are changing traditions

With women's participation in Orthodox services at the centre of controversy, the batmitzvah service is increasingly a matter of debate within families and communities

Next year, give them tradition

I know this is an unpopular stance that puts me at risk of being branded a Maccabeezer Scrooge but the creeping rise of commercialism alongside this most humbling of festivals has, after years of succumbing, started to turn my stomach.

Should we show defiance rather than just worry?