Category
mothers
The most overlooked resource in fighting violent extremism? Moms.
Jewish Journal
July 26, 2016
Counter-terrorism efforts often fail to engage the families of would-be Jihadists, despite their ability and eagerness to help
Helping mothers have it all
Susan Freudenheim
June 27, 2012
The much-discussed article in the July/August Atlantic magazine begins with a story that likely will be familiar to any working mother. The author, Anne-Marie Slaughter, is at an evening work event talking to very important, very professional people, and all that’s really on her mind is the plight of her teenage son, who’s floundering at home without her.
Segregated school affair: Fathers arrive in jail, mothers fail to show
Jewish Journal
June 17, 2010
Thirty five men, fathers to Ashkenazi girls attending an illegally segregated school in the West Bank settlement of Immanuel, arrived at the Ma\’asiyahu prison Thursday evening to serve a two-week sentence.
Cooking lessons
Gina Nahai
December 7, 2007
Reflections on cooking, life lessons and mothers and daughters.
Comforting Mothers Without Mothers
Adeena Sussman
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.
Mom: Resist
Wendy Mogel
May 11, 2006
When stuck with a rebellious child, gluttonous and thieving, the Torah has a tidy solution: Kill him. Or her.
Party Pooper
Carin Davis
September 15, 2005
My college friends Jordy and Michelle are throwing a party — a birthday party for their 1-year-old son. That\’s right, my former party \’til the break of dawn dormmates are hosting a luau for their little one. This should be good.
I walk into the Hawaiian-themed rager and am overwhelmed. It\’s like Tot Shabbat with leis. There are a dozen kids playing on the floor. How do my friends even know this many crawlers? Where did they find them? I can only imagine they rented them from the party store along with the tiki bar and folding chairs. And who are all these new mothers?
Making Sense of My Mother’s Death
Rabbi Eli Hecht
January 29, 2004
Recently, I was working at my school office planning a day of classes and interviews when I was notified of an incoming call from New York. It was my cousin, Shion, a hospital chaplain and a fine rabbi.
\”Have you heard the news?\” he asked.
I thought his voice sounded pensive and without waiting for an answer he went on to say, \”There has been a fire, your mother didn\’t make it and your father is in the hospital.\”
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