Dasee Berkowitz
By Dasee Berkowitz
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Life Parenting How-To: Looking Beyond Diapers and Tantrums to Find Spirituality
Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting Danya Ruttenberg Flatiron Books, 320 pages, $25 I’ve read my share of parenting books. There’s a stack by my bedside table that inevitably tips over with my three kids’ rambunctious play nearby. With a 3, 5, and…
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Opinion Having ‘The Talk’ With My Jerusalem Kids
A six-year-old Israeli boy kisses his mother on his first day of school / Getty Images My daughter’s pre-K is right opposite Jabel Mukaber, where the terrorists who attacked a Jerusalem synagogue yesterday lived. The children were in class watching a video when I picked up my little girl. The pre-K teacher, so poised and…
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Opinion I’m Making Aliyah Days After Israelis’ Kidnapping
The three kidnapped Israelis / Twitter The kidnapping of three Israeli teens from the Gush Etzion area is especially poignant for us now as it (and please God, their safe return) is the lead story in the weeks leading up to my family’s aliyah in 12 days. My obsession over the past six months —…
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