Category
childhood
Not So Fast
Jewish Journal
March 9, 2015
We live in a world that values achievement, excellence, hard work, and success.
MICHAEL JACKSON: Memories of my Childhood
Jewish Journal
June 26, 2009
When I look back on my childhood, it is not an idyllic landscape of memories. My relationship with my father was strained, and my childhood was an emotionally difficult time for me. I began performing when I was five years old, and my father – a tough man – pushed my brothers and me hard, from the earliest age, to be the best performers we could be.
Religion: The ‘first and worst’ explanation
Jewish Journal
October 23, 2008
It belongs to the terrified childhood of our species, before we knew about germs or could account for earthquakes. It belongs to our childhood, too, in the less charming sense of demanding a tyrannical authority: a protective parent who demands compulsory love even as he exacts a tithe of fear.
Happy birthday to me
Marty Kaplan
August 21, 2008
But by and large, despite those enticing pitches, adulthood turns out to mean acceptance — of how you played the hand you were dealt, of mortality, of beshert — even if it sometimes includes flashes of 40-f—ing-8-like fury at the way the world turns out to work.
Card-Table Tales
Sharon Rosen
April 14, 2005
I confess that most of my childhood Passover memories have nothing to do with the Passover story itself. How could they when seders were family dramas enacted against a backdrop of matzah and gefilte fish? Like most American Jewish kids, I started out observing the proceedings from a card table, fidgeting while the grown-ups read from the haggadah.
Turning The Pages of Childhood
Judy Gruen
July 22, 2004
\”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.
Filmmakers Bring Maturity to Cinema
Tom Tugend
April 22, 2004
Israeli filmmaker Shemi Zarhin is a gourmet cook and baker, whose diet-defying cakes, especially, soothe the vilest temper.
A Towering Achievement
Naomi Pfefferman
March 11, 2004
Jennifer Rosen\’s height felt all the freakier because Jews are generally more vertically challenged than, say, Swedes.
How Do We Pass on Our Jewishness?
Susannah Heschel
March 4, 2004
All of us struggle with the problem of how to transmit our commitment to Judaism to the next generation. There are all sorts of suggestions — but no solutions. How do we reproduce ourselves Jewishly?
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