Sarah Wildman
By Sarah Wildman
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Culture Hebrew Immersion Another Option at Charter Schools
Every morning at the CommuniKids Preschool in northwest Washington, D.C., children are greeted with hola, not hello, and they banter and sing in Spanish rather than English. The preschool has another site in Northern Virginia where parents can choose immersion in French as well as Spanish. At the French Maternal School in Georgetown, 2- to…
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News How Do We Talk to Our Children About Israel?
When I was a kid, starting from about the age of 7, I imagined that I would move to Israel. Obviously, I didn’t fully understand what “aliyah” really meant; I was just obsessed with the idea of the Jewish state. I plotted and planned, wrote short stories about an alter ego named Tamar who lived…
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News A Case for Schlepping the Kids
I think the Jolie-Pitts have got it right — Angelina and Brad, that is, and their enormous brood — in their jet-set outlook, in their joie de vivre, in the stir-it-up way they approach international child rearing. Could any other six children in the world claim such experiences? Granted, the majority of us don’t have…
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News When Too Much Is More Than Enough
Gratitude is a strange, multi-meaning-ed thing. It’s both a constant and nonexistent. Just before Passover this year, I bought a new Haggadah from a graphic designer and ketubah maker named Tsilli Pines. I clicked “purchase” after reading just one passage, a meditation on dayenu. “A mother asks, ‘Just let this baby be born healthy and…
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News Michelle Obama, Natalie Portman at Center of Mommy Debate
Before my daughter was born, I didn’t tell a number of my editors that I was pregnant. It was an accident-on-purpose slight of omission, and started because I work remotely so much of the time and barely ever see them. It continued because one of my (male) editors had assured me that, like his wife,…
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News Coveted by Jewish Bidders, D.C. Bookstore Finds New Owners
At Tifereth Israel Congregation, on the northernmost tip of northwest Washington, just before the District of Columbia brushes against Maryland, there is a new book group. Named for Carla Cohen, the Sabbath-afternoon group will be reading this longtime congregant’s favorite books in her honor. It might seem unremarkable — a beloved congregant, a book lover,…
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News Couples Seek ‘Wives,’ Not Assistants
In late January, an advertisement popped up in the Washington, D.C., section of Craigslist. Written by a journalist with a “busy schedule,” it was, ostensibly, a search for a “personal assistant.” But really, it was an advertisement for a $15 an hour wife. The ideal candidate was a cross between my grandmother, Jillian Michaels of…
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News Hillary Was Right: It Does Take a Village
Several weeks ago, my 2-year-old daughter, Orli, woke up screaming. It wasn’t the same kind of cry we normally hear in the mornings — sometimes she’ll just call out “Done!” which, even at 6:30 a.m., is still amusing. And it was early, as in pitch-black-nearly-middle-of-the-night early. When my partner, Ian, went to get her, she…
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