Michael Fox
By Michael Fox
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Yiddish World Here’s what I learned counseling Hasidic special needs children
Last month the New York Times reported on Hasidic schools' misuse of special education funding. Read what it's like working with these kids.
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Yiddish World Feeling the poverty as a child of survivors
Michael Fox describes the pain his mother, a Holocaust survivor, felt at needing to depend on relatives for support.
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Yiddish World Heirlooms: Photo of my grandparents, “the dreamer and the realist”
This photo is of my paternal grandparents, Itche Mayer and Ruda Fuks. I was told that my grandfather wrote commentary on religious texts but he earned a living as a sign painter, and also sculpted lions and eagles for synagogues. What’s unusual about this picture is that it seems to be a candid portrait during…
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