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Diary of a Day-School Mom: screen-shy, yet finding spirituality on a device?
Now, the teacher said, we are going to think about the places where we dwell. So I did. And it was that screen.
Diary of a Day-School Mom: At home, kids still need a separation — havdalah — between school and not
This child who can stand next to me while I cook and talk forever about Lego and snakes, but distance learning has him down.
Diary of a Day-School Mom: ‘My daughter doesn’t see the need for pants’
Noon: The kids accept an uninspiring lunch of eggs and pasta. For me? Cake, because I deserve it. My husband: Cheerios, food of his childhood.
10 Jewish Women Badder Than Taylor Swift
A viral tweet asked if people could name anyone “badder” than Taylor Swift. The internet responded.
Weekend Roundup: All-of-a-Kind Family Edition
Weekly roundup of important things to know before you start the weekend!
The Extraordinary Heroism of Hannah Senesh
Many know of poet Hannah Senesh’s valor in trying to rescue Jews from wartime Hungary. Few know the story of her family, which drove her heroism.
Shifra Lerer, 95, Yiddish Star of Stage and Screen
A version of this post appeared in Yiddish.
From Stanford to Be'er Sheva, Musicians Honor Daniel Pearl
Just a few months after his son Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Karachi, Pakistan, Judea Pearl approached Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann, Senior Associate Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University, about the possibility of organizing a concert in his son’s memory to take place around his birthday, October 10. “He wanted there to be a concert in every place Danny had lived,” explained Karlin-Neumann.