Dear Bintel: My retired mother seems depressed. Should I move home?
Our advice: Don’t add Jewish guilt to her problems — but do plan a visit
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Opinion Elder care is a Jewish imperative. So is paying home health workers a living wage
As a 21-year-old heading off to social work school, I watched my Bubby Jenny die within six months of being put into a nursing home following a stroke. My mother and uncle, her brother, felt helpless and were shattered by both the experience and by their mother’s bitterness toward them at sending her away. There…
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Fast Forward Dov Hikind Retiring After Controversial 36 Years As New York Lawmaker
New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind announced Wednesday that he would retire after a controversial 36 years in office, Yiddish Nayes reported. Hikind, an outspoken supporter of Israel, began serving in the Assembly in 1983. His district now covers the heavily-Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park. Although a Democrat, Hikind was known for frequently switching sides…
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Life Meet The Feminist Jewish Doctor Who Fought For Civil Rights — At All Costs
At the end of the 1950s and 1960s, Atlanta was deeply segregated — down to its very hospitals. At Grady Hospital, cardiac patients were separated by race, with white patients being addressed with the honorific “Mr.” or “Mrs.”, while black patients were referred to their name only. In the meantime, black nurses were simply called…
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Community Idle Retirement? Not at the JCC!
Retirement was looming large on my horizon; filling me with equal measures of joy, dread, and uncertainty. My youthful idealism, which had lain dormant under bills, ills, and life’s many spills, started to resurface. My connection to the larger Jewish community, tenuous, and sporadic at best, seemed to be pulling me closer. I was looking…
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Culture Ari Goldman Goes From New York Times Journalist To Amateur Cellist
“One of the messages of the book is that you can’t wait for brilliance.” Spoken by Ari Goldman, veteran journalist for the New York Times, author of four books, including 1992’s “The Search for God at Harvard,” and my former professor at Columbia Journalism School, these words seemed odd to me — the life lesson…
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News Alan Dershowitz Has No Plans To Keep Quiet in Retirement
(JTA) — Alan Dershowitz’s house is a bit of a mess. Most of the rooms in his Martha’s Vineyard home are cluttered with half-unpacked boxes filled with items from his Cambridge house, which he and his wife emptied recently and sold after he retired from his Harvard Law School professorship in June. Dershowitz himself wears a…
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Life Queen for a Day at My Daughter’s Wedding
Dotty Brown and her husband walk their daughter down the aisle. Transitions… I feel as if I’m moving through a new one I hadn’t considered before. Recently, my “baby” — the youngest of my three daughters — got married, following in her sisters’ footsteps. It was a moment we had long anticipated, encouraged, hoped for,…
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