Amy Chua a.k.a The Tiger Mother Got It Right!

By Julia Bendis
Published on May 3, 2011

Sarah Palin must be so proud - Bristol is cashing in!

By Julia Bendis
Published on April 7, 2011

Dad can take daughter to church, court rules

Published on April 14, 2010

A father may take his Jewish daughter to church, a court in Chicago ruled.

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I Was Kid Free and Guilt Free!  For A Week!

By Randye Hoder
Published on August 31, 2006

My children were unexpectedly away for a week this summer, and I didn't miss them a bit.

Five Gold Bangles and World of Difference

By Amy Hirshberg Lederman
Published on July 13, 2006

It's hard to believe that as recently as the early 1900s, my great-grandmother lived in a harem; marketing, cooking, washing and cleaning side by side with the other wives who shared her husband's bed.

Shiloh Welcomes Shiloh

By Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Published on June 8, 2006

Residents of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh voiced pleasure at having a new namesake in the daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt.

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Published on May 18, 2006

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Comforting Mothers Without Mothers

By Adeena Sussman
Published on May 11, 2006

"My childhood skidded to a stop on a Tuesday afternoon in the middle of my 15th year, with my mother's first mammogram results," writes Hope Edelman in her moving new book, "Motherless Mothers: How Mother Loss Shapes the Parents We Become" (Harper Collins). For Edelman, her mother's illness and subsequent death from cancer two years later in 1981 were the beginning of a journey of loss, self-exploration and eventual emotional redemption that has spanned nearly a quarter-century and spawned three well-received books on the subject.

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Published on May 4, 2006

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Father of the Bride: No Job, Just Smile

By Yehuda Lev
Published on February 9, 2006

Recently, I told some friends that I was going to accompany my younger daughter while she tried on wedding dresses. Their reactions were as follows: From the women: "How very sweet"; "How lovely to bond with your daughter"; "I'm sure you'll enjoy it."
From the men: "Bring your checkbook

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Published on December 29, 2005

Cecile Abers , died Nov. 26 at 90. She is survived by her husband, Emanuel; daughter, Laurie; one grandchild; and sister, Beverly Sloane. Malinow and Silverman

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Published on November 17, 2005

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Published on November 10, 2005

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Published on October 20, 2005

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More Love and Lust From the Bible

By Gaby Friedman
Published on September 15, 2005

"The Song of Hannah" as imagined by Etzioni-Halevy, tells the story of two women -- Hannah and Peninah, Elkanah's other wife -- and its chapters alternate between their two voices.

A Father’s Drive to Save His Daughter

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on September 15, 2005

George Smith hates to lose. A Harvard Business School graduate, Smith founded one of Southern California's largest, most prominent real estate investment banking firms and will receive an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University next week. Still, he smarts a little from a grievance endured at Hamilton High more than 50 years ago.

"I graduated second in my class to a home economics major," said the 70-year-old real estate guru and father of four. "She had one B in three years and I had two. My physics teacher graded me at a different level than anyone else because she knew I was going on to Cal Tech."

He holds no grudge. And this small injustice would help to fuel rather than blunt his drive to succeed, which has served Smith well in building a firm that exceeded $2 billion in commercial financing last year. He never imagined that he'd also apply this indomitable will another way: in a fight to save his daughter's life.

Becca Smith was 5 years old in 1983 when she was diagnosed with Ataxia Telangiectasia (A-T), a rare, progressively degenerative neurological disease for which there is no cure. Children with A-T have difficulty walking and with balance, and are more susceptible to infection and certain cancers. Smith and his wife, Pam, were told that Becca was unlikely to reach her 20th birthday.

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Published on September 15, 2005

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Published on September 1, 2005

Bernard M. Shapiro who founded the El Caballero Country Club in Tarzana in 1957, died Aug. 26. He was 89.

After playing golf at the Bel-Air Country Club in 1954, Shapiro wanted to join, but a friend told him he would not be welcome because he was Jewish, Shapiro told the Los Angeles Times in 1998.

With the help of a few friends, including supermarket owner Eugene Gelson, Shapiro built a member-owned country club that anyone was welcome to join.

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A Mother’s Wish for Her Daughter’s Day

By Wendy Jaffe
Published on August 11, 2005

Despite our tradition that sets the 13th year as the start of adulthood, 13 is not the end of childhood or the beginning of adulthood. Instead, it is the start of a new stage -- teenager. Neither an adult nor child, a teenager is like Dr. Doolittle's Push-Me, Pull-You: Sometimes he seems to be pushing toward adulthood, and at other times he is pulling back toward childhood.

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Published on August 4, 2005

MORRIS APPLEMAN died July 8 at 98.

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Published on July 7, 2005

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Published on June 30, 2005

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Published on June 23, 2005

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Published on May 26, 2005

Constantin Andronescu died April 26 at 61.

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Published on May 19, 2005

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My New Mother

By Ellie Kahn
Published on May 5, 2005

My mother has become a serene and content old woman.

The changes, probably due to both her dementia and medications, have created an unexpected-and quite wonderful -- new chapter in our relationship.

Let Your Tasteless Chicken Go

By Lisa J. Solomon
Published on April 21, 2005

For many years, my daughter and I were lucky to be invited out for Passover. Besides joining a big group of people, and sampling a variety of Passover foods, I relished the added benefit of not having to plan, shop and cook for the daunting seder (first and second night) meals.

Noa Back With New Album, Daughter

By Kelly Hartog
Published on November 18, 2004

Renowned recording artist Noa, known as Achinoam Nini in Israel, is currently at home basking in the glory of her latest creation.

And no, it's not a new album.

It's her daughter, Enéa. "It means 'her eyes' in Hebrew," says Noa, who has written a song with the same title.

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Published on October 28, 2004

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Published on October 14, 2004

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Tough Guys

By Tom Teicholz
Published on August 12, 2004

Reading "The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel" (W. Norton & Co., 2002) in paperback, edited by Babel's daughter, Nathalie, got me thinking about Jewish gangsters and tough guys.

Babel was born in Odessa in 1894. He wrote of Odessa's Jewish underworld and its gangsters in sparkling prose. Fifty years before Mario Puzo gave us "The Godfather," Babel offered up Benya Krik. Benya, Babel tells us, had "gangster chic" -- a century before Tupac took the stage. Babel's Odessa was home to a universe of Jewish murderers, pimps and crooks. Before there was 50 Cent, Babel wrote of a millionaire named "Yid and a half."

The Last-Minute Pajama Party

By Lisa Frydman Barr
Published on July 22, 2004

The Last-Minute Pajama Party, preparation process.

Do Party Invites Right

By J. G. Friedman
Published on March 11, 2004

The index-card box is one of the most important items in your home and is referred to each time an affair is coming up -- as well as when you need a gift for that person's party.

Letter to Jason Alexander: OneVoice Off Key

By Frimet Roth
Published on March 11, 2004

OneVoice's sound-bite version of this conflict is misleading. Enticing, no doubt, but grossly inaccurate. Crucial facts have been omitted, and it's easy to see why. They punch holes in the attractive solution your minders have sold you -- the solution you are peddling to us.

Defining Family

By Yehuda Lev
Published on November 20, 2003

A few months ago, in these pages, I described a brief visit to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of my daughter, Dafna, 42, and

her fiancé, Scott, 36 ("Father of the Bride," July 11). It was a first marriage for both and celebrated without benefit of clergy -- Scott being Christian and Dafna, Jewish.

This drew some criticism from readers who felt that I was amiss in not discouraging my daughter from marrying a non-Jew. One, in fact, reminded me that some Jews sit shiva when such a marriage takes place and regard the offending child as dead. It seemed to me that is a bit strong. There was also a time when adulterers were stoned, but we seem to have progressed beyond that. (More to the point perhaps, how does one tell a 42-year-old daughter whom she should marry?)

A Father’s Daughter

By Murray Fromson
Published on November 6, 2003

I am a Jew, a journalist and a professor, but I also am an anguished and proud father. Last month, my wife and I welcomed our daughter back to Los Angeles for her annual visit to observe the High Holidays with our family. She will not be coming home. Home for her is Israel, where she has lived for 23 years.

We hope to talk about things other than the subject, but who's kidding whom? After all, we are Jews. Inevitably, we will banter about politics, be it the wackiness of California's recall election or the tragedy of Israel's dead-end policy in the territories.

Teen Feared Kidnapped in Israel

By Gaby Wenig
Published on September 11, 2003

Unlike disappearances in the United States, which are often a case of runaways or kidnapping by criminals, disappearances in Israel are often feared to be a case of terrorism.

Ozzy’s Father-in-Law Bails Out Synagogue

By The Manchester Jewish Telegraph
Published on May 22, 2003

Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne's father-in-law has intervened in the Higher Crumpsall/Higher Broughton Synagogue row with the Synagogue Council to settle the shul's debt with a burial board.

Death Stalks Family

By Tom Tugend
Published on December 5, 2002

A local American Israeli family, which lost a daughter in an airport shooting rampage last July 4, is in renewed mourning for a son who died Nov. 26 following a car accident.

Jewish Mother Jokes

By Marlene Adler Marks
Published on May 9, 2002

Mother's Day is not exactly a Jewish holiday, but it does provide an occasion to consider whether anything new can be noted in that old war-horse, the Jewish mother joke. Surprisingly, I do note several new wrinkles that help explain why even now this Borscht-belt holdover is not going away fast.

Ode to Mother

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on May 9, 2002

The semiautobiographical piece grew out of Tinberg's previous play, "Bearing Witness," about another Holocaust survivor and her daughter.

In the Soup

By Marlene Adler Marks
Published on May 2, 2002

My parents visited a year ago while I recuperated from lung cancer surgery and they developed a division of labor.My father would do odd jobs around the house. My mother would feed me.
This was a good plan in theory, but in reality, it had loopholes. My father's tasks were well-defined: fix a fence, change a light bulb. But my mother struggled. What is it exactly her middle-aged daughter with upper-middle-class tastes liked to eat? The fact is that both of us had long since stopped cooking most of our meals, taking our nourishment from restaurants and take-out. Nevertheless, there persisted in her the belief that when a child is sick, only homemade foods will do. Familiar, nourishing, Jewish foods.

Time’s on his Side

By Michael Aushenker
Published on January 24, 2002

There's no denying that Fox's critically acclaimed "24" is a fast-moving show that, unlike other dramas, operates in "real time" -- each 60-minute episode's action literally unfolds over an hour's time.
But what series co-creator Joel Surnow never anticipated was that his rookie show would move as fast in the real world: Not even halfway through its first season,"24" was nominated for Best TV Drama and Best Actor (Kiefer Sutherland)Golden Globes.Dark horse Sutherland won over perennial award show favorites Martin Sheen and James Gandolfini.

A Father’s Loss

By Dennis Gura
Published on May 17, 2001

Against the Dying of the Light: A Father's Journey through Loss" by Leonard Fein (Jewish Lights Publishing, $19.95)

Ask Wendy

By Wendy Belzberg
Published on May 17, 2001

Ask Wendy.