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First Person – Like Any Other Child

By his size and handsome impression, our son, Max, appears to be like any other boy his age, however when you meet him in his wheelchair, you quickly learn that he is severely disabled, both cognitively and physically. He\’s unable to talk, use a device to communicate, propel himself or use his hands. You realize that he\’s dependent on others in every aspect of his life. Yet, that didn\’t stop our family and friends from all over California, our community and Max himself from celebrating his becoming a bar mitzvah.

Who Loves You?

A bright and otherwise articulate second-grader was having night terrors.

Fourth Bar Mitzvah No Piece of Cake

Every bar mitzvah is the same, and there is none like any other,\” Morley Feinstein, our senior rabbi at Los Angeles\’ University Synagogue, says.

A Mother’s Wish for Her Daughter’s Day

Despite our tradition that sets the 13th year as the start of adulthood, 13 is not the end of childhood or the beginning of adulthood. Instead, it is the start of a new stage — teenager. Neither an adult nor child, a teenager is like Dr. Doolittle\’s Push-Me, Pull-You: Sometimes he seems to be pushing toward adulthood, and at other times he is pulling back toward childhood.

A Kidney for Chana

Chana Bogatz is 5 years old, and she loves cutting and pasting paper, playing with her brothers and sisters and having \”Happy Birthday\” sung to her.

Turning The Pages of Childhood

\”Mommy, will you read to me?\”

My 10-year-old daughter asks me this question every night. Even if I\’m exhausted, or just want some time to myself, I almost always say yes. Before I turn around, she\’ll be 11, then 12, then a teenager.

She will no longer need her reading fix with Mommy. \”Time will not be ours forever,\” as Ben Jonson wrote back in 1607, when the printed word was still a new invention. I want to make this time with my daughter last.

Give Your Kid a Hug — a Paper One

Open your lunch box. Peek inside. Surprise! Mom scribbled you a note and drew you a little picture showing you she cares.

Donor Pool Swim

Few days have haunted me like April 15, 2002. It was the day Time magazine screamed out from its cover that women cannot have it all.

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