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Special Delivery – When Baby Brings More Than Expected

Women suffering from PPD often fail to receive help for a number of reasons. They might be ashamed of their feelings, or they simply might not know where to turn. And not all obstetricians and pediatricians are as attuned to the condition as Berger was.

Wandering Jew – The Hit Parade

Here it is: 5,000 years after Moses wandered the Sinai, his people have finally found a home in Reseda, no less, at the Jewish Home for the Aging, the largest continuing residential care facility for the elderly in the Western United States. Yet while these Jews are no longer wandering, they are today wondering when the big simchah begins.

Visit to Ethiopia Changes His Life

\”John has given real leadership to the issue of Ethiopian Jewry,\” said Barry Shrage, president of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, who earlier this year went to Ethiopia with Fishel and 100 American Jewish federation members. \”He\’s always been the first one to speak up and stir the conscience of the federation movement.\”

Kids Learn Burial Rites From Barney

Michael Sachs remembers that he had initially thought that a program on death wasn\’t really important for people in their 40s.

\”But, in fact,\” he now says, \”I learned things I assumed I wouldn\’t need to think about for many years. I thought the program dealt with potentially distressing material in a nonthreatening, matter-of-fact fashion,\” he said.

9/11 Museum Head Uses Shoah Lessons

For more than two decades, Alice Greenwald has been helping to give people a palpable understanding of the Holocaust through her work with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

‘Steins’ Skewers Simcha Rivalry

\”Keeping Up With the Steins\” proves that you don\’t have to be Jewish to make a funny, insider Jewish film, or that if you grow up in the Bronx or went to school in North Hollywood, you become a Jew by osmosis.

First Person – A Coming Out (of Egypt) Story

Sixteen years ago this month; Jeff Bernhardt came out of the closet to his family, to free himself from the bondage of keeping this huge and personal part of him from them.

‘Voodoo’ Jew Finds Love, Truth in Haiti

The title, \”Madame Dread: A Tale of Love, Voodoo and Civil Strife in Haiti,\” comes from the nickname given to her by the kids in her Port-au-Prince neighborhood. In Haitian tradition, women take on the first names of their husbands; in her case she was named for the dreadlocks of her boyfriend (who later became her husband). She also refers to herself as a \”Voodoo Jew.\”

Humor in ‘Eat’ an Acquired Taste

\”When Do We Eat?\” centers on the Stuckman family, which includes grandfather Artur (Jack Klugman); father Ira (Michael Lerner), who tries to lead \”the world\’s fastest seder\”; his neglected wife, Peggy (Lesley Ann Warren); and their children.

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