This past week, former First Lady Michelle Obama strongly criticized the Trump administration’s efforts to delay programs to make federally subsidized school breakfasts and lunches more nutritious, noting that million of children nationwide rely on schools to provide healthy food for the first two meals of their day. Obama was underscoring a major issue in…
Several Dutch parents were dumbfounded on Monday when they discovered in their children’s coloring book a paint-by-letter drawing of Adolf Hitler, making the Nazi salute and wearing an armband with a swastika on his left arm. Photos of the controversial drawing were shared on social media, which prompted Kruidvat, the Dutch retailer that sold the…
The estrangement of Jewish youth from the Jewish community is an issue of concern for all of us. While we differ in how that sense of belonging should be expressed, we all want our children to self-identify as members of that unique society of mutual responsibility and reliance that is the Jewish people. For some…
More Palestinian children died in 2016 by Israeli fire than by any other year in the last decade, said Defense for Children International’s Palestine branch. The group counted 32 Palestinian children killed by the Israel Defense Forces, police and security guards in 2016. The group defines a child as anyone under the age of 18….
We make a left out of our apartment and walk on Sixth Avenue, where a wide selection of pine trees are available for purchase. “I want a Christmas tree,” says Ravi, my 4-year-old. “What’s Christmas?” I ask. “I don’t know,” Ravi says. “I like the lights.” Why shouldn’t she want a tree? Pine trees especially…
After a protracted legal battle, an Israeli couple won the right to produce a grandchild using the sperm of their son, who died in a car crash while serving in the Israeli Navy four years ago. Irit and Asher Shahar plan to use a donor egg and surrogate mother to produce a son or daughter…
About 70 percent of Jews voted for Clinton yesterday, and the election results came as a shock to many. But if you are a parent it’s not only your own feelings you need to process, there is also the daunting question about how to explain all this to your children. CNN commentator Van Jones got…
My oldest daughter, who is going on 9, was tossing insults at her younger sister, Moriya, heedless of my exhortations to cease and desist. The usual deprecatory remarks that fly around our Israeli apartment like arrows include “stupid,” “liar” and “crybaby,” in various combinations of Hebrew and English. This time, though, there was a zinger…
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