{"id":96,"date":"2025-09-01T05:52:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/kol-echad\/?p=96"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:59:36","slug":"rinas-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/kol-echad\/rinas-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Thriving After Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs a kid, I wanted to be a Broadway actress. I was obsessed with musical theatre. I ended up majoring in English, got married before I finished my BA,\u00a0 and graduated with my 1st baby. I was a stay-at-home mom for the next 8 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We had hoped to move to Israel, my lifelong dream, but it didn\u2019t happen. I even trained to be a makeup artist, a good field for Americans there. I ended up opening a successful business in Toronto. A woman who worked for Aish with young professionals came to me needing to be made up for headshots. She later called asking if I\u2019d be a leader for a women\u2019s trip to Israel (JWRP, now Momentum). I threw myself into it. I had the opportunity to talk to people about Judaism in a way I never had before. Then NCSY asked me if I\u2019d run similar trips to Israel for parents. I started public speaking even though I wasn\u2019t a speaker yet and I got my current job teaching Judaic Studies at Ulpana (where I went to high school) from the principal who was in the audience. (At my interview, I said, \u2018I don\u2019t think you understand, I\u2019m not a teacher. And she said, \u2018I don\u2019t think you understand, you are.\u2019) Now I\u2019m in my 7th year teaching high school girls. I don\u2019t fit into a box. I try to be the teacher I wish I had in high school, that person willing to tell me things the way they really are. I\u2019m planting seeds and showing my students how to look at the world through a Jewish lens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve been divorced for 2 years now. We were married for 23 years &amp; have 5 kids. I\u2019ve learned that people are terrified that if someone in the community gets divorced, then others are going to get divorced too. This will never happen to a couple who has a good relationship. Women in my situation often think about divorce for years. Leaving isn\u2019t simple. The best path forward isn\u2019t always the easiest, but it\u2019s still the best.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013 Rina Deutsch<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the Orthodox Union\u2019s Faces of Orthodoxy archives\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs a kid, I wanted to be a Broadway actress. I was obsessed with musical theatre. I ended up majoring in English, got married before I finished my BA,\u00a0 and graduated with my 1st baby. 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