Dear Aviva, My wife is pregnant and I feel like she is a different person! She blames it on the hormones and being pregnant, but it’s really taking a toll on me. According to her, I’m always either saying the wrong things, looking at her the wrong way, or I smell bad. Whatever I say or do seems to just anger her more and it’s frustrating for me, not to mention I don’t want to be around her! I want my wife back! -Sad (soon-to-be) Dad more

The NY Times Sunday magazine recently featured an article about the dangers of yoga, titled “All Bent out of Shape, the Problem with Yoga”. The author goes into gruesome detail of various injuries sustained by both students and instructors in their intensive practice of yoga. After discussing the article at length with friends and teachers, I’ve decided it’s typical of sensationalist journalism, creating a provocative title and inserting some truths amid the extreme examples that prove the author’s point. more

I can still remember exactly the way “the ice cream man” looked on the beach in Brighton. I loved those beach days way back when. Of course most of you under 35 probably don’t have the same memories of going to the beach as I do. more

August 26 NY Mets Jewish Heritage Day 1:10 P.M. METS vs. ASTROS • Join the Jewish Community Relations Council of NY and the Mets at Citi Field for Jewish Heritage Day. • Pre-game programming to include musical entertainment celebrating Jewish-American culture. • Enjoy Glatt kosher food available at select stands located on the Field & Promenade Level concourses. • Groups that purchase 25 or more tickets will receive a scoreboard greeting. Visit www.mets.com/jcrc for more information and to purchase tickets. more

Most would agree that the rigors of college life, course work and all, would constitute a full plate, so to speak. Jeremy Rosenberg, 20, of North Woodmere has taken it to a different level. The 2011 North Shore Hebrew Academy graduate, who spent his post high year studying at Yeshiva Eretz HaTzvi in Jerusalem, serves as a mashgiach at Cornell University, where he is in the midst of his first year. more

My late father was a survivor of Auschwitz. He arrived there as a young Hassid from a Jewish village in Poland, and he left as he had arrived, with his faith intact, and with an awareness that following the Holocaust, he must not be tempted by the offers of the JDC and HIAS to travel to America. As he put it one of the few times he broke the long silence that characterized his life: “The time had come to go home.” more

Tahitian breezes blew through Brooklyn Heights last Wednesday night: Fresh fish and Polynesian chicken were being served under an authentic grass Tiki hut; palm trees dotted the room; and visions of pristine, blue-and-tan beaches graced the walls. An indoor mirage? No, a Modern Orthodox synagogue, Congregation B’nai Avraham, was celebrating the 13th anniversary of its mikvah, the ritual Jewish bath whose history goes back thousands of years. more

This past week, I catered a sit-down Thanksgiving dinner for 48 for a producer from California who was in town for her son’s wedding, finalized a few party proposals, filled a few cake orders, cooked for my mom, and tried to shop for a dress to wear to a dinner. Turns out shopping was the hardest item on my list. more

THURSDAY FEB. 27 LUNCH & LEARN with Rabbi Shalom Ax- elrod of YI Woodmere. Traditions Restaurant, 302 Central Ave., Lawrence. 12:30-1:30 pm. $12 lunch. Alan Stern 516-398-3094. YU JOB FAIR. 6 to 9 pm, Yeshiva University Wilf Campus, 500 W. 185 St., Manhattan. 212-960-5292. more

SATURDAY JUNE 14 FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE SHABBAT PARTY featuring a Shabbat Oneg for children with special needs and their siblings. Program includes stories, snacks and fun. 4 to 5 pm. Chabad, 74 Maple Ave., Cedar-hurst. 516-295-2478. more