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Responsible parents typically instruct their children to never accept candy from strangers. This is true in the Jewish world except when it comes to the

When a family is faced with a new diagnosis of autism for their child, the immediate feelings can be overwhelming. The child might be faced

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“Mommy, why do you always make this face?” my younger daughter asked me one afternoon last year, contorting her lips into what resembled an angry