parenting
Let the Parenting Criticism Stop… Unless
The other day I came across a very funny video by Similac, the baby formula company. This extended advertisement was ...
Lonely in a Crowd of Strollers
When a person is born or a person dies the Jewish community rallies with meals, support, and love. When a ...
Jewish Summer Camp: The Questions You Should Be Asking
This blog post was reprinted with permission from InterfaithFamily.Thinking of sending your kids to Jewish summer camp (this year or ...
My Four-Year-Old Just Lit Shabbat Candles for the First Time
“Tzi-tzit tzitzit tzitzit, where are you today? I need you for a bracha, I need you right away!”This was a ...
Is There Such a Thing as a Feminist Dress Code?
In December, the New York Times printed an article about the new fashion guidelines for state legislators in Montana. In ...
Exercising Religious Freedom
I’m a runner, a three-time marathoner. Whenever someone asks when I took up running, I say I started 12 years ago. ...
One Family’s Wish for a World without Gender Roles
As we prepare for Transgender Day of Remembrance be sure to check out these stories of gender in our Jewish community ...
A Bat Mitzvah Hand-Me-Down
I wore a white eyelet dress for my 1971 bat mitzvah. My mom bought it at a discount shop on ...
Dr. Seuss, Rashi and Sydney Taylor: A Study of Creating Ritual
In my mind, the definitive tale of sisterhood was not the conventionally chosen classic, Little Women , but rather the ...
Body Talk – Our Bodies, Our Sukkah Posters
When we received our JOFA sukkah poster last week, I excitedly showed my daughters, ages five and ten, the poster ...