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Camp Turned My Son into a Teenager

A few weeks ago, in a parking lot in Montreal, with hip-hop music blaring from oversized speakers, and lanes delineated ...

Dairy Queen

Sometimes the most challenging part of being a committed Reform Jew is seeking ways to incorporate Judaism into our home ...

It Takes a Village, Like It or Not

After my son, Jonah, was born, our family – Jonah, my wife, Cynthia, and I – became a self-sufficient little ...

It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…

Jon Adam Ross is a widely acclaimed theater artist, founding company member of Storahtelling and the Northwoods Ramah Theater Company. ...

Saying Yes

Joel Yanofsky is the author of Bad Animals: A Father’s Accidental Education in Autism.   We figured we were all set. ...

Spicing Up Your Seder

As a rabbi who also happens to be a mother of small kids, I am often asked for creative ideas ...

Conflicted

Passover is coming and, as always, it is causing a certain amount of anxiety for certain members of the family. ...

Autism, Camp, and the Power of Friendship

Rabbi Isaac Saposnik is the director of Camp JRF in South Sterling, PA.Two summers ago, I met David for the ...

The Plain Old Normal

Joel Yanofsky is a writer and author of “Bad Animals: A Father’s Accidental Education in Autism.” The letter my son, ...

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