10 May Grandparenting from Afar: Connecting with Your Grandchildren When You Live at a Distance

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Are you seeking playful ways to connect with your grandchild who lives far away? ...

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28 Apr Bat Mitzvah’s 100th Birthday

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How Jewish life has changed since the first Bat Mitzvah 100 years ago...

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20 Apr The Blessing of Making Aliyah at Age 79

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David Raphael Note: I wrote this essay in 2010 and it was published in The Forward   Two years ago, at age 79, my mother became an olah hadashah, a new immigrant to Israel. We moved her to live in the small apartment above my sister Ruth’s home...

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21 Dec Don’t Bite Your Tongue

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Relationships with our adult children — the parents of our grandchildren — are often close, trusting, and warm. Yet these relationships can, at times, be difficult to manage. Sometimes a wrong word or a misread facial expression can lead to harsh words and anger. And...

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22 Nov Pulling Back the Turban

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What the Sikh Turban-Tying ceremony can teach us about B-Mitzvah...

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17 Nov How to Talk with Your Grandchild about Becoming B-Mitzvah

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3 strategies for having significant pre- and post- B-Mitzvah conversations with your grandchild...

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16 Nov How Your Grandchild’s B-Mitzvah Can Enrich Your Relationship with Your Adult Child

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Steps you can take to develop and enhance your own relationship with the parents of your B-Mitzvah grandchild...

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14 Nov How Your Grandchild’s B-Mitzvah Can Enrich Your Relationship with Your Adult Child

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Steps you can take to develop and enhance your own relationship with the parents of your B-Mitzvah grandchild...

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26 Oct B-Mitzvah for All: Creating Accessible, Inclusive, and Meaningful Experiences for Teens of All Abilities

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Steps for clergy and educators to imagine what is possible for the B-Mitzvah teen with disabilities....

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25 Oct Still Life Tells Moving Stories — A Grandparent-Grandchild Photography Experience

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Combine the memory-power of objects and the ease of photography for you and your B-Mitzvah grandchild to share parts of yourselves....

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