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family
Bonding Over Torah
Jane Ulman
January 12, 2006
Generally taught once a year, with 10 to 20 girls enrolled per class, the program affords mothers and daughters special time together. It also introduces the girls to peers from other schools, allowing them to view bat mitzvah as a more universal experience.
The Good, the Bad and the Confusing
Ed Shevick
February 3, 2005
You cannot spend time and energy wondering where the years went. They are finished.
Seniors must concentrate on now. Enjoy life now. Do what you can within your abilities. Life is precious and good. Tomorrow will come at its own speed.
Balance Paramount to UPN Head Ostroff
Soriya Daniels
June 24, 2004
Dawn Ostroff, who in addition to being a religiously observant wife and mother, has worked her way up to a glamorous, powerful and exciting position: president of entertainment at UPN. Offering insight into the art of balancing home and work life and achieving one\’s professional dreams, she reminds us that it\’s never too late.
C’mon, a Bat Mitzvah Is, Like, So Uncool
Marlene Heller
March 11, 2004
\”I don\’t want a bat mitzvah,\” she told her parents. \”It\’s just for you and your relatives. You don\’t even need me there. So why don\’t you just throw your own party?\”
Good Timing Lands Luck in Director’s Lap
George Robinson
September 18, 2003
Greg Pritikin\’s film takes place in a sort of every-suburb America of tract houses with manicured lawns and two-car garages, and is utterly devoid of anything to place it in historical time.
Remembering Dad During Days of Awe
Lisa J. Solomon
September 4, 2003
This Rosh Hashanah brings to a close the year in which my father died. For this reason, and many others, I am grateful that the Jewish New Year is marked not by parties, but by days and weeks preceding and following of self-evaluation, quiet contemplation and prayers for blessings in the coming year.
A Sparkling Life
David Geffner
August 14, 2003
\”Back in my grandfather\’s time, the diamond business was almost entirely Jewish,\” Aaron Furlong said, as he graded small stones. \”Mazel was your word, and if you went against it, you were ostracized from the business.\”
Material Instincts
Gaby Wenig
March 27, 2003
Every day before Dina Goldstein (not her real name) leaves the house to take her two young children to day care and herself to work, she grabs two bagels and two boxes of orange juice. After buckling the kids into the car, she gives them the bagels and the juice, and they eat breakfast in the car on the way to school.
\”I just don\’t have time to get them ready, myself ready and feed everyone before I leave the house,\” said Goldstein, who works as a religious day school teacher.
Like Goldstein, many women find maintaining a family and a job overwhelming.
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