I started learning Hebrew for my father. I became obsessed with it after Oct. 7
Learning my father's language is helping me connect to my own Jewish future at an especially precarious moment
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News My father’s last words
“When my father was nearly on his deathbed, a last effort at surgery was attempted, and a dutiful surgeon, asking him routine questions, inquired of the cause of his parents’ death. “Gas,” my father replied. The puzzled surgeon asked him to explain himself. “Gas chamber,” my father said. ”They died of gas chamber.” My brother…
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News Jewish Fathers in Just Six Words
What’s the essence of the Jewish father? This was the question the Forward posed to you in a contest to write six-word tributes to your fathers and grandfathers for Father’s Day. Six words may not seem like much to work with for a people with so much to say. And there are few topics that…
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Culture Everybody Knows The Cliche Of The Jewish Mother — But What About Jewish Dads?
Happy Jewish Father’s Day — and you know what that means, right? Well, actually, you probably don’t. Because unlike Jewish mothers, who’ve got a stereotype that just won’t die (not even if it goes outside without a sweater), Jewish fathers are not defined as any one thing. Which got me wondering: Why not? Why are…
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Opinion Your Six Word Gift For Dad
With Father’s Day just around the corner, today is your last day to submit your six word tribute on your Jewish father or grandfather. The Forward’s six-word memoir project is conducted in conjunction with Larry Smith, editor of SMITH Magazine, home of the Six-Word Memoir®. Larry and the Forward staff will pick our 12 favorites…
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Opinion Your Dad in Six Words
There’s something about the number six in Judaism. God created the world in six days. Six times three is 18 — meaning Chai, or “life” in Hebrew. And six is the number of words we’re asking you to write about your father or grandfather in advance of Father’s Day. What better Jewish tribute to the…
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News Summing Up Your Jewish Dad in Six Words
Everyone has something to say about the Jewish mother, but the Jewish dad is a harder character to pinpoint. In film and television, he often plays the meek foil to his overbearing wife. But for those of us with a Jewish father or grandfather in our lives, we know he’s so much more: fiercely family-oriented,…
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