Friday Night: Independence Day Shabbat
There are days when I find myself walking down the street singing that Lee Greenwood song that came out right after 9/11: “Well I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t...
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With my daughter, the naming process was complicated by the fact that, for the first twenty weeks, I was sure I was having another boy. And for the second, by my conviction that she’d be born early.
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Motherhood isn’t a day job. I’m on-call around the clock. We do grunt work with pride and never expect a thank-you, because we are motivated by love.
View ArticleSeven Things to Tell Your Kids About Martin Luther King, Jr.
How do you get your kids to understand the meaning of a holiday, and not just the fact that they get a day off from school? Well, we were wondering the same thing, so we asked our readers on Facebook …...
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