Editor’s note: For this special Father’s Day parenting column, Aaron Britt is subbing in for his wife, J. parenting columnist Drew Himmelstein. Since I came to some kind of style consciousness, let’s call it 15 years ago, I’ve basically hewn to a polished, preppy, somewhat fashion-forward style. “Mad Men” was a revelation that pushed me…
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My dad is 100% Jewish, but I’m scared to enter a synagogue
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‘Dead to Me’: The next must-watch show for Jewish women
It’s been a while since I felt like a show outsmarted me. But “Dead to Me,” Netflix’s new star-studded series, has made me gasp quite a few times.…
Parenting
Virginia Woolf was right. I deserve a room of my own. (The kids can share one.)
When I shared a one-bedroom San Francisco apartment with my husband and two children, I had a recurring dream in which I discovered a hidden room. First,…
Parenting
So much anti-Semitism, and a trip I will never forget
When our kids were 12 and 14, we spent two weeks traveling around Eastern Europe. We visited the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague, where the sanctuary and…
Parenting
My 6-year-old’s beloved trash heap
Egg cartons litter the floor. Milk cartons and cereal boxes sit perched on his dresser and poke out from his toy bin. There is cardboard everywhere. This…