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Parenting young kids is full of pitfalls where we can get stuck on the difficulties of the day-to-day of meeting...

New Parents, Parenting, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Stories, Parenting Tips and Advice

How a Catholic School Girl Ended Up With Five Bar Mitzvah Boys

By Melanie Grossman

If anyone would have told me when I was 17 that someday I would be in an interfaith marriage and have five...

Grandparents, Parenting, Relationships

The Insanity of Packing My Daughter’s Perfect Jewish Mexican Lunch

By Anna Keller

I learned the word for bread in English first. The soft syllable already begging for butter,...

Parenting, Parenting Stories

How to Navigate Different Sets of Rules with Parents and Grandparents

By Miriam Steinberg-Egeth

Kids love consistency; they rely on it and thrive with it. So what happens...

Extended Family, Family, Grandparent Advice, Grandparents, Parenting, Parenting Adult Children, Parenting Tips and Advice

6 Activities for Tu Bishvat With Kids

By Miriam Steinberg-Egeth

Tu Bishvat is sometimes called the Jewish Earth Day or the Birthday of the Trees. This family-friendly holiday...

Books, Holiday How To, Parenting, Parenting Other Holidays, Tu Bishvat

As Our World Implodes, I Bake Challah

By Anna Keller

Last week I had 6 dollars and 97 cents in my checking account. And I’m not so worried. To me, money isn’t...

Parenting, Parenting Stories

December Holidays Conversation Starters

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch

The December holidays bring up more questions and tension for many couples than any other time of year. Because...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Relationship Challenges

Our Hanukkah Fight Wasn’t Really About What We Teach Our Kids

By Anna Keller

I took a seat at my computer while the girls were doing crafts in the kitchen and the baby was toddling around...

Hanukkah, Parenting, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories, Relationship Challenges, Relationships

Christmas Decorations: My Guilty Pleasure

By Anna Keller

It’s that time of year again when I ask myself as a Jew if I prefer Christmas to Hanukkah. Historically, my...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Jewish Holidays

What The Jewish New Year Looks Like In Brooklyn

By Anna Keller

While my family passed those first few lonely months in quarantine together in Brooklyn, the pandemic’s...

High Holy Days, High Holy Days for Parents, Parenting, Parenting Stories

Rosh Hashanah Crafts & Activities

By 18Doors

Even if you’ve never celebrated the Jewish New Year before, or you haven’t done it in a kid-friendly...

High Holy Days, High Holy Days for Parents, Parenting Rosh Hashanah, Rosh Hashanah

This Mom of an Interracial, Dual-Faith Family Has the Advice & Support We Need

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch

Rorri Geller-Mohamed, LCSW, is a family therapist and parent coach who specializes in working with multiracial...

Identity, Parenting, Parenting Tips & Advice, Race, Young Kids

Quarantined in Brooklyn, Surrounded by Faith

By Anna Keller

I dress for Whole Foods like someone dressing for war, or like someone with an acute fear of dying. Maybe I’m...

Parenting, Parenting Stories

My Daughter’s Best Friend is the Best Gift

By Anna Keller

I grew up 1.6 miles away from my Grandma Rosie in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. We lived in Midwood, and...

Grandparents, High Holy Days for Parents, Parenting, Parenting Stories

Truth: Motherhood is Lonely

By Anna Keller

When Helen was born, she was the first and I feared I would never leave the house again. I remember Adrian leaving...

Babies, High Holy Days for Parents, Parenting, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Stories

Rosh Hashanah Traditions

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch

I always laugh when people say “the Rosh Hashanah is early this year” or “Rosh Hashanah is late this year.”...

High Holy Days, High Holy Days for Parents, Holiday How To, Rosh Hashanah

I Started Doing Shabbat and I Can’t Stop

By Anna Keller

My apartment has become a secret cave of imagination. Sometimes it is the park where Peppa Pig plays with her...

Parenting, Parenting Shabbat, Parenting Stories, Shabbat

Finding My Place in the Preschool Jew Crew: Parenting with Interfaith Blinders

By Emily Silberman

I’d like to say that my Jewish husband, Ryan, and I had a plan when we started our family—Jewish preschool...

Parenting, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Stories, Religious Education

How Will We Answer Their More-Than-Four Questions?

By Anna Keller

Passover used to be my favorite holiday. I suppose it still is although, now that I have an interfaith family,...

Parenting, Passover

I Want My Kids to Feel “Jewish Enough”

By Anna Keller

How did this happen? How did almost three-and-a-half years go by? Wasn’t I just in the delivery room waiting...

Parenting, Parenting Stories

Motherhood: Am I Doing it Right?

By Anna Keller

I’m not sure how I’m doing as a mother. I mean, all self-criticism aside, I’m trying to take a step back, have...

Parenting, Parenting Stories

Why My Jewish Kids Love Their Advent Calendars

By Melissa Anne Cohen

I was at Trader Joe’s the other day and bought an advent calendar. For my dog. While this does make...

Parenting Christmas, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

How Will Our Kids Understand the Past?

By Anna Keller

In the fifth grade, after I got thrown out of Yeshiva (a Jewish school), I went to a private school in Brooklyn...

Holocaust, Parenting, Parenting Stories, Religious Education

Hanukkah Feels Different This Year

By Sarah Rizzo

In this time of news stories that cover the prevalence of anti-Semitism, we as Jews respond with sadness, tinged...

Anti Semitism, Hanukkah, Parenting

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