Reuven, a 6th grader, is assigned a school project. He comes home and tells his mother about the project: Reuven: “Today, I received a very
Any reader who has attended one of my parenting workshops will be surprised to hear me touting the word no. My usual mantra, after all,
I went through many phases of “what I wanted to be when I grow up.” Loved dogs, so thought I wanted to be a veterinarian.
I am not a big fan of animals. I don’t really have the time to dedicate to grooming, cleaning, buying supplies, or feeding them, and
There are plenty of reasons to be cynical about U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s relaunch of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The personalities and the politics
It read like a scene from a bad novel. For Americans of a certain generation, it recalled the heroic struggle initiated by Rosa Parks when
Over 2700 hundred years ago, circa 740 BCE, it was written in The Book of Isaiah: “For the sake of Zion, I will not be
In many ways, Idan Zablocki is a typical one-year old, with a happy-go-lucky nature, an intense curiosity about the world around him, and an enthusiastic
According to a Midrash of the Exodus, the sea did not split until Nachshon ben Aminadav waded into it up to his nose. In another
At a family get together, my brother-in-law requested that I write an article on fats—margarine, oil and butter. There had been a heated debate in
In Parshat Hazinu, we read in the song of Moses, “He fed him honey…and oil,cheese of cattle and milk of flocks; with the best of
Over the last 20 years the Food and Drug Administration has made food labels mandatory by law in an effort to improve the transparency of
