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grandparents
The final Obama/Romney showdown: A note to Jewish grandparents
Jewish Journal
November 1, 2012
I believe there is a unique bond between grandparents and grandchildren. We look out for each other. We have each other’s backs.
Should frozen sperm be used to create posthumous grandchildren?
Jewish Journal
March 22, 2011
Last fall, 27-year-old Ohad Ben-Yaakov was injured in an accident at his part-time job, and he died after two weeks in a coma. Ben-Yaakov wasn’t married, nor was he in a relationship. No woman was pregnant with his child.
Grandma Who?
Jewish Journal
March 25, 2009
Growing up, I called my grandmother Grandma.\n\nWe were Jewish, but also American. There was never any question but that my grandma would be Grandma. Even if she was born in the Old Country and, like all my friends and all their grandparents, spoke with a Yiddish accent. I used to think, in fact, that in order to be a grandparent you had to have been born in the Old Country and speak with a Yiddish accent.
Autism groups focus on needs of grandparents
Jewish Journal
December 18, 2008
\” . . . As grandparents, we go through a range of feelings. Some of these are triggered by the child\’s behavior and how the parents react to it. Grandparents are frightened and upset that their grandchild is experiencing these problems . . . \”
Siblings show they have write stuff
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
March 9, 2007
For Daniel and Lauren, becoming authors has also meant serving as peer educators.
\”I told my friends that I wrote a book about the Holocaust, and at least three of them didn\’t know what it was,\” said Daniel. Lauren had a similar experience.
What Bergen-Belsen Taught Us
Menachem Z. Rosensaft
April 28, 2005
On Sunday, April 17, hundreds of Holocaust survivors from around the world, along with their children and grandchildren, gathered on the site of the German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen to observe the 60th anniversary of the camp’s liberation.
Family Time
Howard Nemetz
February 24, 2005
I recently returned from Florida, where I spent the Kwanzaa break (I\’ve coined a new name for the winter break that I hope will sweep the nation) with my parents. Actually, they used to be my parents. Now they\’re my son\’s grandparents. I was once my mother\’s middle child, her youngest son, one of three apple-cheeked children around which her world revolved. Now I\’m just the thing that brings the grandchild during the Kwanzaa break (I think the name is catching on).
On Shabbat, Stay Cool as a Cucumber
Lisa J. Solomon
August 5, 2004
Since they were Orthodox and didn\’t use appliances on the Sabbath, Oma had an array of simple but wonderful dishes she prepared in advance to be eaten cold. In the Miami heat, her Cucumber Dill Salad was one of my favorites.
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