The author, center, with her children Anna and Adam, in 2014. // Photo courtesy of Judy Bolton-Fasman For eight years I’ve written a weekly parenting column for a local Jewish newspaper in Boston. My valedictory column will be published just before Rosh Hashana. When I accepted the job, I made it clear that I would…
The author (left) and her son in the Dead Sea, Israel. / Copyright Avital Norman Nathman There’s a certain sense of overwhelming fatigue that comes from spending hours traipsing along the streets of Tel Aviv under the hot summer sun. Even my mother, who accompanied my almost 8-year-old son and me on this outing and…
Thinkstock Should couples sign a pre-pregnancy contract, outlining how caring for the infant will be equally divided between the two parties involved? Slate?s Rebecca Onion thinks so. Concerned about the potential negative effects procreation might have her on her life and her relationship with her husband, Onion wonders whether a ?legally binding document, outlining expectations…
Dear Paul, Before I asked you to be with me forever, on that rock in that river, I considered whether or not you’d be a good father. I felt pretty sure then, six years before Oliver, that you would be. But you don’t really know until that baby comes. And you really don’t know until…
Getty Images Earlier this week the New York Post ran a cover featuring Chirlane McCray, the First Lady of New York City next to the banner headline: “I WAS A BAD MOM.” I am so glad they did this. The Post article was a summary of the profile of McCray by Lisa Miller in New…
Humanity’s oldest dream turns out to be Roz Chast’s worst nightmare. “Imagine some horrible dystopian future, some 50 years from now, where people just stop dying,” she says, sitting in her living room in quaint, rural Connecticut, surrounded by pastel-colored walls, books and colorful knickknacks. “They’re 98, they’re 102, they’re 107, they’re 112” — the…
Recent articles in the Forward have raised the issue of Orthodox Judaism’s so-called repression of sexuality. Although I thought the articles were not particularly respectful of Orthodoxy’s moral codes, they do indeed raise a point. Arguably bad mannered, they are undoubtedly on to something. This past summer, an article in The New York Times, presumably…
Amy Winehouse’s parents aren’t too happy with ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil’s decision to give an interview at the late singer’s grave at Edgwarebury Lane Cemetery in Edgware, North London. To make matters worse, he failed to wear a kippah. “To film beside a grave shows total disrespect. I want nothing to do with this,” Janis Winehouse…
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