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Jul 9, 2025, 2:26 PM

How great are the tents of Jacob: Preventing abuse

Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during a demonstration in Beit Shemesh on August 13, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Everyone wants to protect their children, even in the most insular communities. Some screaming extremists aren't going to get in their way (Balak)

Jun 18, 2025, 3:37 PM

Safe in the Shelter: Guidelines for Parents

It’s hard to believe that we have to think about things like this right now. While our country is facing the very real threat of an Iranian attack with ballistic missiles, we have to also consider how we can...

Jun 13, 2025, 12:58 AM

Hope you like these socks, honey

Our daughters' lingering hugs or peals of 'Daddy!' when he walks into a room demonstrate who ranks first, and I love it

Jun 8, 2025, 5:03 PM

Summer Fun Without the Spending Stress

A few summers ago, I found myself hunched over a calculator in the back of our hotel room, mentally deducting every ice cream, museum entry, and taxi fare from our already stretched budget. While my kids were busy building...

Jun 3, 2025, 10:33 AM

Are Your Kids Ready for a Digital Wallet?

A friend called me recently, clearly torn. “My 11-year-old wants a digital wallet,” she said. “He says all his friends are using them. Should I say yes? How do I even begin?” Her question struck a chord. In a world...

Hillary Anger Elfenbein

May 31, 2025, 8:48 AM

The Chronicle of Higher Education expresses disregard for Jewish parents

Being both a faculty member and mother of a Jewish college student has placed me in the intersection of two very different worlds: a profession that faces existential threats and a parent community where we and our children are...

May 28, 2025, 9:58 PM

Crisis, Conflict and the Kindest Generation

National Service volunteers at Jewish National Fund-USA affiliate ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran are all smiles while celebrating Yom Haatzmaut with residents and students with severe disabilities.

Growing up in the suburban United States during simpler times, I was largely sheltered from the storms of life. Though I marched and rallied for the freedom of fellow Jews around the world from a very young age, their trials...

May 28, 2025, 5:36 AM

One of my favorite pictures of my brother is a snapshot where no one is even looking at the camera. Rick is in the middle, his daughter and my girls flanked on all sides. My youngest, maybe six...

May 20, 2025, 7:06 AM

A Kindertransport to Ethiopia? A Kindertransport from Croatia?

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There are so many myths which still surround the Kindertransport. This might be because of a sense of “ownership”, of misunderstandings, and a lack of awareness of the extent of archival material now available to us. Britain’s “ownership” over...

Bazy Swirsky Rubin

May 14, 2025, 3:32 PM

Rockets, resilience, and children during war

Kids lying down on the ground because of a siren that went off just as everyone was heading to school. (Sar-El Ben Tzvi)

That time a siren rang out and we danced in the safe room... and that other time we were in the park and the 9-year-old made sure we were all safe

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