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Family & Parenting

Essay

Three Sets of Dishes

Ellen Uman­sky is the author of The For­tu­nate Ones, a nov­el released last week about the fate of a Chaim Sou­tine paint­ing left behind in Vien­na. Ellen will be…
Ellen Uman­sky
February 20, 2017
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Book Cov­er of the Week: On Tur­pen­tine Lane

It’s been kind of a top­sy-turvy week, so the image of a quaint sub­ur­ban house ripped from the earth and spun like Dorothy Gale’s twister-borne home feels about right…
Nat Bern­stein
January 24, 2017
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Love, Mar­riage, and Jew­ish Families
Sylvia Barack Fishman
Essay

The Cut

Ear­li­er this week, Eytan Bayme wrote about tast­ing Kornbluh’s track­le­ments for the first time and cel­e­brat­ing his third Christ­mas in Europe as an Amer­i­can Jew. Eytan…
Eytan Bayme
December 30, 2016
Essay

Par­ent­ing in the Age of Social Media

Ear­li­er this week, Mar­jorie Ingall let us in on five rea­sons for the delayed pub­li­ca­tion of her book, Mamaleh Knows Best: What Jew­ish Moth­ers Do to Raise Suc­cess­ful,…
Mar­jorie Ingall
September 2, 2016
Essay

Uh, Five Rea­sons My Book Was a Year Late

Ear­li­er this week, Mar­jorie Ingall wrote about step­ping out of ghost­writ­ing to write her first book since 1998. With the pub­li­ca­tion of that book, Mamaleh Knows Best:…
Mar­jorie Ingall
August 31, 2016
Essay

A Ghost­writer, on Being Visible

Mar­jorie Ingall is a colum­nist, ghost­writer, and author of Mamaleh Knows Best: What Jew­ish Moth­ers Do to Raise Suc­cess­ful, Cre­ative, Empa­thet­ic, Inde­pen­dent…
Mar­jorie Ingall
August 29, 2016
Essay

Ten Com­mand­ments of Spe­cial Needs Parenting

Fol­low­ing her posts on rec­og­niz­ing the sen­so­ry over­load of cel­e­brat­ing Purim and set­ting a place for spe­cial needs at the seder table, this week Liane…
Liane Kupfer­berg Carter
June 9, 2016
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Find­ing Mr. Rightstein
Nancy Davidoff Kelton
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Free Your Child From Overeating
Michelle P. Maidenberg, Ph.D., MPH, LCSW-R
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The ABC’s of Adulthood
Deborah Copaken (text and photographs)Randy Polumbo (photographs)
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Nur­ture the Wow
Danya Rut­ten­berg
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Ready, Set, Breathe
Carla Naumburg, PhD
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You Are a Com­plete Disappointment
Mike Edi­son
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Cook­book
A Taste of Torah
Aviv Harkov
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The Mom­my Group
Eliz­a­beth Isado­ra Gold
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