The loving, complex relationship I had with my mother, a Holocaust survivor
My mother refused to send me to sleepaway camp, no matter how much I wanted it. For her, 'camp' could mean only one thing
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Opinion ‘I won’t let her murder make me a weaker person’: The daughter of a Highland Park victim speaks
Katherine Goldstein was shot and killed at a July Fourth parade. Her daughter, Cassie Goldstein, was with her when she died.
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Breaking News Daughters of Jewish Mom Killed in Metro North Crash To Speak Out For the First Time
For the first time, the daughters of train crash mom Ellen Brody, who was killed when her SUV was struck in February’s gruesome Metro-North tragedy, are speaking out. In a preview of their interview with Matt Lauer, they describe the night their dad came home, hours after the collision that also killed five men in…
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The Schmooze Herring, Puns and Michael Chabon at Jewish Cultural Awards
“Do you know why the sea is salty?” I asked Mark Russ Federman, third generation owner of Russ & Daughters during the champagne reception at the June 10 Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 2013 Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards at The TimesCenter. Without missing a beat, he gave the classic shtetl wisdom answer: “Because herrings swim in…
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Life Becoming A Grandmother
Mother’s Day, 1983. I’m sitting in our cramped apartment kitchen in Philadelphia with my husband and two older friends who were, I guess, substituting for our own parents that day. The crazy traffic along the Northeast corridor on that Sunday in May often meant that we skipped visiting my mother in New York and my…
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Life How To Know When You’re Ready for Baby
Have you ever noticed that some of the juiciest conversations seem to pop up instantly? This mother and her twenty-something daughter frequently find themselves working in front of the computer when an instant message appears on their screen. Here’s one recent back-and-forth that grew out of an IM conversation between mother and daughter. Alexis: So…
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Life Chummy With Mummy
So it seems like if the much-hyped new HBO show “Girls” was really tapped into the zeitgeist it would be about a feisty foursome of best friends — made up of mothers and daughters. Yep, move over old college roommates and next-door neighbors, the growing bond between mothers and daughters is the latest and greatest…
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News ‘Gaza Doctor’ Builds New Life in Toronto
The photo leaning on Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish’s office window almost blocks the view of the Toronto skyline. It shows his three daughters, Mayar, Aya and Bessan Abuelaish, sitting on the beach in Gaza, writing their names in the sand. Closer to his desk, pinned to the wall, is the recent fourth-grade math test of Abuelaish’s…
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