I have been trying to re-create my grandmother’s chicken soup for more than 15 years. Though my chicken soup is not her chicken soup, I like to think they are close. First, I cut up onions, carrots and celery in large pieces. (When my son sees me cutting the vegetables, he tells me my knife skills are…
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Now that my 6-year-old is reading, he can’t get enough
Already in 2019, I’ve taught my son to read. I can’t imagine I’ll accomplish anything that tops that this year. I had help, of course:…
The Matzo Chronicles
My nephew, the minyan-making hero
Downstairs at the historic Eldridge Street Synagogue in New York City, 10 men in yarmulkes daven. Upstairs in the women’s section, I sit by myself,…
Summer Camp
Camp Tawonga to road-test all-gender cabins
After attending a few LGBT family weekends at Camp Tawonga, Jonathan Brunn felt ready to attend sleep-away camp there. But Jonathan’s mom, Nancy Brunn,…
Parenting
Return of the mommy brain: the teenage sequel
My mommy brain is back. I thought that foggy postpartum brain-drain feeling was supposed to go away once my babies started sleeping through the night. But…
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Marin twins’ new website promises easier b’nai mitzvah planning
Like many twins, Noah and Adam Weitzman tend to complete each other. Or, at least, to finish one another’s sentences when speaking. So it was probably…
Parenting
Road tripping with 2 young kids — fun times, or madness?
Last fall was a season of road trips for my family. A couple of years ago, we uprooted our lives in California and now live in New York. I miss living in…
Unions
Married in their hearts, it took 23 years and two sons to make it legal
Karen Solomon always felt she was a bit out of step with most other women when it came to talk of weddings, the big day, the perfect gown and all of that.…
Community
Quad Mitzvah — four siblings celebrate together
It was just another beautiful, soulful, tearful b’nai mitzvah … times four. For the four siblings who came into this world more or less together 13 years…