I can't decide whether to feel prescient, vindicated, or just terribly sad that much of the anecdotal evidence of financial stress within families that this blog has been tracking for more than a year now, has been confirmed by The Washington Post. The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll out th...

Except for my occasional posts on reproductive rights, I try to stay out of current trends in feminist thought. I do this because I appreciate that young women today are living in a very different social and cultural context from the one I grew up in back in the 1950s and 1960s. Often their ideas ab...

There are so many beautiful and awesome love stories in paperbacks, movies, television drama series, sagas and even in the internet. Love has always been a favorite subject. All these sell like hot cakes. The truth is every person has his/her own side of romanticism. Every person has experienced lov...

When Ron Arons shook the family tree, a bad apple fell out. The Montreal Gazette's Mike Boone, did a nice story on Ron and his appearance in Montreal this week. Ron is a transplanted New Yorker who lives in San Francisco. He's just written "The Jews of Sing Sing." He will be in town this week for tw...

I never expected to find an essentially Jewish identity and genealogy story in Vanity Fair, but here it is. In "Jewish Like Me," author Amy Fine Collins reflects on her lifelong role — above and below the Mason-Dixon Line — of being the only Jew in the room, and how an unexpected declaration by ...

1. Did anyone have to deal with outright hostility from their parents at their decision to attend grad school? My mother is barely speaking to me because I'm applying at the moment. She didn't want me to go to college let alone grad school and... it's hard. Tips? 2. What did you find the most surpri...

By Carmen We last interviewed the Atkins family in May of 2007 as they were in the preparation stages of an around the world trip by bus while homeschooling their 4 children. At that time, the Atkins were overhauling their vehicle to accomodate their trip. Now they have been on the road for 6 months...

I've mentioned before that I spend Saturday afternoons with my father trying to clear out the house.  Yesterday was no exception.  And, sadly, we talked about the fact that my mother had died exactly five months ago.  It seems like a long time, and yet it seems like no time at all. Si...

B'H, cool yiddishe mama now has two new jobs, when a little over a month ago, I was seriously worried about my parnasah. I resigned from the Talmud Torah where I had worked for eight years because 1) I was not happy with the changes he had made to my schedule and 2) he hired as his assistant someone...

What is your definition of "leisure time?"  Is it all the time in your day in which you are not working?  Or is it the time you spend doing something you really, truly enjoy? The question comes as most of us are getting ready to kick back and enjoy the upcoming three-day Labor Da...