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Sep 6, 2026, 9:40 AM

My grandparents at their wedding - June 20,1946

“Why didn’t grandma give me the “heirloom” that she spoke about?” asked my son, Yoav. “It’s a long story”, I answered. My son, Yoav married his bashert, Danielle on June 7, 2026. My mother, her husband and my uncle (my mother’s brother)...

Hagit Zadok Fefferman

Sep 3, 2026, 5:24 AM

My grandparents told me about Auschwitz at 8; I took baths for a year

A young Hagit with her beloved grandparents, Boris and Rose.

The shiny metal showerhead was staring down at me. From where I stood, it seemed impossibly high above my eight-year-old body. Yesterday, I wouldn’t have given it a second thought. Today I stared back at it with fear. Earlier that...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 2, 2026, 5:03 AM

Advanced Engineering behind an Apple.

This article is written with my children in mind - to teach them to observe as scientists in the real world. I believe it’s a very good way to teach all children - outside of school (which isn’t very...

Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Sep 1, 2026, 7:25 PM

Knowledge Without Understanding: God Bless Toddlers!

"Knowledge without understanding is useless." - Analects, Confucius (551 - 479 BCE) Highlight of any toddler birthday-party is opening the presents. Mommy saved the best for list, a bills-and-whistles car-dashboard, working lights, windshield-wipers, the works. We ask the three year-old if...

Aug 28, 2026, 5:40 PM

Dolly Parton’s Jewish Children

How a country singer’s dream became PJ Library—and brought Jewish stories to my grandson Dolly Parton was an American original. She did not become one by trying to be different. She became one by refusing to be anyone other than...

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Aug 28, 2026, 3:14 PM

Dolly’s riches and my new-baby haze are improving Israel’s election season

The 'Coat of Many Colors' on display at Dolly Parton's Chasing Rainbows museum at Dollywood. The coat on display is a reproduction, made by Parton's mother, Avie Lee, of the original. (Wikipedia)

When I can give all of my attention to Israeli politicking, I'm at risk of missing the important stuff, buried amid the barrages of ugly accusations.

Stephen M. Flatow

Aug 26, 2026, 4:59 AM

Now it’s Hannah’s turn

A granddaughter leaves for a year of study in Israel, carrying Alisa’s Hebrew name—and beginning her own journey of Jewish growth, independence and discovery. Today my granddaughter Hannah left for Israel to begin her gap year. That sentence is easy to...

Aug 23, 2026, 10:54 PM

B’Yachad has done its homework on fixing our schools

MK Moshe Turpaz alongside former Prime Minister Yair Lapid at a Supreme Court hearing on the illegal transfer of 1 billion NIS to unregulated ultra-Orthodox educational institutions (credit: MK Turpaz's office)

It may be cliché to say that education is a cornerstone of Israel’s economy and security and the keystone for our future. But what makes any cliché a cliché is that it’s true. The fundamental problem with education in...

Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Aug 20, 2026, 9:00 PM

A Beast Would Mourn Longer: ‘My Child! My Child!’

"A little month... O God! A beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourned longer." - Hamlet, I.2, William Shakespeare (1601) Every parent's worst nightmare is losing their child. Whether due to illness, drugs, suicide, crime, war or terrorism,...

Aug 20, 2026, 8:47 PM

The Digital Front Door Helps Support a New Generation of Children Where They Are

If child protection is to remain relevant and effective, it must reinvent itself. Today, 85% of ELI’s intake arrives online rather than through traditional phone lines.

We live in an era where the primary gateway to a child’s world is no longer a knock on the front door, or even a ringing telephone. It is a screen. For older generations, picking up the phone to...

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