parenting

The holiday spirit is here, and I’ll be celebrating Hanukkah this week to its fullest. My family will pause to ...

Hineni.  Here I am, ready to nurse my last child for the last time. My mind is like a vortex for ...

I love my girls. We have a blast together. We ski ALOT. We make endless fun of each other. Secret ...

As an irrepressible, even relentless, optimist, I hold great hope for Jewish life in America. I wonder if that is because ...

I remember the exact moment when I realized I’d never be the Jewish James Bond.It was right after our son ...

A few days ago Jennifer Weiner wrote about her daughter’s communications from camp. Yesterday my husband and I dropped off ...

Like everyone else, I balance different aspects of my identity: American, Jew, New Yorker, educator, feminist, mother, white, spouse, runner, ...

“Hey Buddy!”Whenever I hear that term, so common coming from the lips of dads in my generation, I invariably pause ...

I’m a skeptic when it comes to believing that every cloud has a silver lining. Some clouds do of course, ...

It’s the end of the summer, and my children are educating me about Jewish pirates.“They lived in the Caribbean in ...