Since its launch in 2020, YIVO’s online museum has had close to 51,000 visitors from an astonishing 161 countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
At a time when my granddaughters are threatening to grow up way too fast, this time together has become a memory I’ll always treasure.
These posts pull at the heartstrings and usually generate up to a few hundred responses.
By nature I am optimistic and even-keeled. And yet when I got sick this time, I was in no mood to trot out that cheerful, positive attitude.
In Janice Weizman’s novel, “Our Little Histories,” a short, cryptic Yiddish poem continues to intrigue and puzzle members of one far-flung Jewish family for more than 150 years.
Last Sunday I tried to do my small bit to support the IDF by making a set of tzitzit.
Democrat, Republican or Independent, we are in this together and need to find a way forward more peacefully.
This week I will light the 31st yahrzeit candle for Dad. As the years go by, I remember him less for his emotional pain and more for his special qualities.
Feelings matter. Children do need to feel heard and understood. But encouraging kids in adolescence to marinate in their feelings hurts them.
