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Carol Silver Elliott

Jun 24, 2026, 10:54 PM

Getting Unstuck

Last week I had the opportunity to be a part of a presentation at an elder care conference. The topic was health and nutrition, and the subject matter was wide ranging. It included the recognition that, especially in an...

Mordechai Soskil

Jun 24, 2026, 8:49 PM

Kaddish Brothers

This Friday will conclude 11 months since my father’s death, and thus the end of my period of time to say the Mourner’s Kaddish. When a Jew is sitting Shiva, they stay at home and the minyan comes to...

Jun 22, 2026, 7:52 PM

What It Means to Be a Jewish Father

My children call me “Aba.” I have been given several other names that carried weight, including soldier, instructor, and business owner. Each came with duties I understood and accepted. Fatherhood arrived without instructions and asked more of me than...

Sheldon Kirshner

Jun 22, 2026, 6:50 PM

The Plight Of Partial Jews In Nazi Germany

Germans of mixed race ancestry fared badly in Nazi Germany. Thomas Paul Bernstein was one of them, a half-Jew who barely survived the brutalities of the Third Reich. He and his sister, Barbara, tell their story in Holocaust: German History...

Johnathan Orlianski

Jun 21, 2026, 6:53 PM

The Family Erased

My name is Johnathan Orlianski. My family name was once spelled Orliansky, before it was changed after my family arrived in Israel in the 1970s. I live in Israel. I am the great-grandson of Rabbi Zalman Orliansky, author of Machaze...

Jun 21, 2026, 6:15 PM

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love K-Dramas

My daughter kept plugging a Korean historical drama on Netflix about a cooking competition, and I couldn’t understand the appeal. I’m a reader, and not much of a cook. Why would I waste time on a fantasy cooking show in...

Jun 21, 2026, 6:12 PM

Three Laws for Living When Life Breaks

Three Laws for Going On Living When Life Breaks Apart I was walking with Yohanita through the park near the Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. There, once again, we saw a group of Ukrainians gathered together. Whenever Yohanita sees them, something...

Sharon Beth-Halachmy

Jun 21, 2026, 5:12 PM

Summer, simchas, and the reality of caring for aging parents across the miles

There is a version of family caregiving that looks like the old stories. Everyone lives nearby. The children take turns caring for aging parents. Grandchildren stop by after school. Shabbat dinners together. If someone needs help, there is always a...

Jun 21, 2026, 5:06 PM

Dads…will be dads…

. . . with love. . .

The world is spinning – and so are our perceptions of boys and girls, men and women, dads and moms. Roles are expanding, or changing, choices proliferating, lives getting busier and fuller, and kids, and parents, thriving even as they...

Shlomi Nahumson

Jun 21, 2026, 11:01 AM

Father’s Day without a father: Lessons from children of Israel’s fallen heroes

IDF soldiers place Israeli flags on graves of soldiers during the flag laying ceremony in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2026, ahead of Memorial Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The nation remembers its heroes, but children need to remember their fathers as people: Did he like fishing? Football? Dad jokes?

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