What’s So Jewish About Leaving Your Parents’ House? I Had to Find Out for Myself
Louis Keene
November 6, 2019
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I can’t be the badly dressed mom at pickup time
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2012
Today, I stopped home to change my outfit before picking up my kid from day care.
Why Should Teachers, Parents and Tutors Be Frenemies?
Jewish Journal
August 26, 2009
During her first week as a seventh-grade English teacher, Anna Taggert discovers her colleague, Randi Abrahams, at Starbucks writing a paper for one of her students, while the kid sips his peppermint mocha and texts his friends. The most popular English teacher in the school, Abrahams dresses like a fashionista on the $250 an hour she earns moonlighting as a tutor.
When Birthday Party Blowouts Blowup
Sharon Duke Estroff
September 7, 2006
Fortunately, it\’s perfectly possible to plan a kid-friendly birthday bash without compromising our values, sanity and pocketbook. All it takes is a little panning for gold.
Modern Orthodoxy’s Marriage Crisis
Alana Newhouse
June 8, 2006
Hard-to-marry-off children have been worrying parents since Genesis, when Leah, her eyes tender from the sadness of being unwanted, took part in a hoax to trick Jacob — her younger, prettier sister\’s suitor — into marrying her.
Jewish Studies Bug Bites Parents, Too
Sue Fishkoff
May 18, 2006
Eighteen months ago, when Lenard Cohen\’s 4-year-old daughter was enrolled in the family\’s congregational preschool, the Philadelphia-area father of three decided to go back to school himself.
First Person – A Coming Out (of Egypt) Story
Jeff Bernhardt
April 13, 2006
Sixteen years ago this month; Jeff Bernhardt came out of the closet to his family, to free himself from the bondage of keeping this huge and personal part of him from them.
Few Females Filling Mohel Role in U.S.
Sue Fishkoff
January 26, 2006
Weiss-Ishai is one of just a few female mohels in the United States. There are about 35 Reform female mohels and just four trained by the U.S. Conservative movement, as well as a handful who learned outside the United States.
Wine, Women, Song
Jewish Journal Staff
October 6, 2005
Judd\’s parents, Art and Bunnie, have been making wine in Napa Valley for 25 years, first creating the Whitehall Lane label, then Judd\’s Hill.
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