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What The Jewish New Year Looks Like In Brooklyn

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

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

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

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

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

Parenting

Truth: Motherhood is Lonely

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

Parenting

I Started Doing Shabbat and I Can’t Stop

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

Parenting, Parenting Shabbat, Shabbat

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

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

Parenting, Religious Education

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

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”

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

Parenting

Motherhood: Am I Doing it Right?

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

Hanukkah Feels Different This Year

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

Anti Semitism, Hanukkah, Parenting

Can We Be Happier Parents?

Author KJ Dell’Antonia with her daughter. Photo credit: Jessica Lahey I didn’t read any parenting books...

Camp, Parenting, Parenting Stories

How to Be a Kosher Vegan in an Interfaith Family

Almost two months ago I became a vegan. It’s a long story. I saw some crazy movies about meat and dairy, I...

Parenting, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Stories

Shabbat (with Kids) Cheat Sheet

If you’re new to Judaism or looking to learn how to share more Jewish practices with your family, Shabbat is...

Jewish Holidays, Parenting, Parenting Shabbat, Shabbat

I Was the Loca Lady at My Baby’s Naming

Photo By Lizzy Sullivan I never thought that I would be the crazy lady in synagogue. You know the one: She sits...

Israel, Parenting, Parenting Stories

Helen Fell on Her Head and I Prayed to Jesus, Sort of

Helen fell on her head. In case I didn’t think I deserved the “worst mother award” before, I pretty much bolted...

Parenting, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

Divorce and Kids: When You Do What You Do–and Not What You Say

490 December, 2001 “You’re hypocrites,” Rachel, my then 19-year-old daughter in her first...

Divorce, Parenting, Relationships

We’re Interfaith: Now What Do I Tell My Sons about Dating?

1395 When I married my spouse who is not Jewish, I wanted nothing more to do with being Jewish. That...

Dating, Parenting, Parenting Challenges

Why am I Jewish and Daddy Isn’t?

1375 August 1, 2013 Rachel and her son celebrating Hanukkah My son, who is now two, doesn’t notice when...

Parenting, Parenting Challenges

How to Rebuild on Yom Kippur

What it means to rebuild on Yom Kippur… A few weeks ago my family had a hard day. It seemed that both...

Parenting, Parenting Stories, Yom Kippur

Charting a New Course

We live in a world filled with hate. It seems as each new day dawns, we are reminded of this very concept....

New Parents, Parenting

A Jew-by-Choice’s Perspective on Her Teenage Daughter’s Interdating

543 August, 2005 What if my daughter started dating somebody who wasn’t Jewish? How should I react?...

Dating, Parenting

And A Child Shall Nag Them Into It

127 August, 2008 “I want us to have a Christmas tree,” my 4-and-a-half year old announced one...

Parenting

Marrying Off a Daughter as a Values Clarification Exercise

Marrying off a daughter is a values clarification exercise. While the wedding ceremony ostensibly serves to...

Extended Family, Parenting, Relationships, Weddings

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