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Problems Abound in Pampering Parents
My mother and father are both in diapers. I wasn\’t at all prepared for this possibility. Dealing with the visual and olfactory aspect of my son\’s end products when he was a baby was an expected part of being a mom, but it\’s a completely different matter when it\’s my parents wearing the Pampers.
Report From Phuket Faith and Tsunami: A Rescue Mission
Ten minutes after the tsunami hit, my phone started ringing. It\’s been ringing ever since, 24 hours a day — husbands looking for wives, mothers looking for daughters, friends looking for their traveling companions.
The School Project Nightmare
The fourth grade take-home assignment seemed fairly straightforward: take a huge hunk of butcher paper, lay your kid down on it, and trace a life-size version of their favorite American tall-tale protagonist.
What do you say to a parent of a disabled child?
You might see us in the park, holding hands with Danny while walking him from the swings to the slides, and think, "He sure has a weird way of walking.
Daddy Track
My daughter turned 4 weeks old today. She has never heard of the State of Israel, the book of Deuteronomy, Albert Einstein, Shawn Green, Joe Lieberman, the Holocaust, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, the Western Wall, God, or, I suspect, her father.
Sounds of Healing
Half of Tina Feiger\’s family fled from there in 1938. Barbara Ravitz became so anxious on a visit there in 1969 that she hasn\’t been back since. Sherri Lipman, like so many American Jews, has never been there.
On Nov. 25, they will be in Germany, part of a huge, largely Jewish choral ensemble singing music based on a Jewish text, written by of one of the world\’s most renowned Jewish composers. They will be not just in Germany, but in Nuremberg, where the Nazi regime generated its restrictive anti-Semitic laws. Not just in Nuremberg, but in a concert hall built over the rubble of the arena where thousands of Germans gathered in the 1930s to affirm Adolf Hitler\’s hate-filled rants.
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