“My friends went to Free Cone Day and didn’t invite me!” a child of mine complained one day after school, briefly having checked in on
The doors opened on Sunday, May 7, at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun to a packed event that filled the social hall to its seams. Naomi Nachman,
Every night, before my kids drift off, I lie down with each of them for three minutes. They look forward to this sacred time, the
One evening, while rushing to get ready to go to an after-school performance, I was touching up on my makeup so that I wouldn’t appear
Last weekend, I decided to make the trek out to my parents in West Hempstead for Shabbat because my husband was away in Chicago. Since
My kids are old enough to walk home from the bus alone. There is no rulebook that says this; I just decided it on my
Typically, after winter break, the next big vacation begins to loom in the minds of the Jewish community—the often-dreaded Pesach holiday. The intense cleaning, the
I am writing about a topic I was hoping I wouldn’t have to revisit, one that I had imagined was closed forever with the emancipation
As I neared the 12th birthday of my oldest daughter’s life, I sought ways to imbue this milestone with more meaning than what has become
A large portion of my day was spent imprisoned by a vortex of fuse beads. If you are not familiar with fuse beads, consider yourself
The portrait of the Babba Sali, a famous Moroccan kabbalist who died in the early 1980s, came to us by way of a family member
When my son Liad is hurt, he asks for Puppy, his small dalmatian-like lovey, with a little doggy head. When he finishes up a tantrum?
