14 Nov How Your Grandchild’s B-Mitzvah Can Enrich Your Relationship with Your Adult Child
Steps you can take to develop and enhance your own relationship with the parents of your B-Mitzvah grandchild...
Steps you can take to develop and enhance your own relationship with the parents of your B-Mitzvah grandchild...
It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Your grandchild is becoming B-Mitzvah. You envision them standing on the bimah, or perhaps encircled by family in a home celebration, chanting and singing and sharing the wisdom they have found in the Torah portion. At this milestone occasion, you may want...
Prompts for family members to reflect on their family relationships...
How to cultivate a love of Judaism and a strong Jewish identity in the face of rising antisemitism....
Research shows that teens often trust — and confide in — their grandparents more than anyone else...
“Grandpa, will you get your ice cream in a dish or in a cone?” my then-seven-year-old granddaughter, Amina, asked. We were walking to the ice cream parlor in the little town in Connecticut where her mother was the rabbi of the local temple. I was taking...
Despite its tremendous joys, being a Jewish grandparent isn’t easy. Our kids are too religious or not religious enough. In other words, they don’t do it our way. This also applies to their thoughts about Israel: they may love it more than we do or...
Have you noticed that when grandparents get together we love to share photos of our always-adorable grandchildren?...
It goes without saying that we love our grandkids. And we want them to grow up to be good people, open to others, accepting of differences, wise, and brave. I call this the moral imagination, and when we just hang out, love them, play cards,...
Author of Unconditional Love: A Guide to Navigating the Joys and Challenges of Being a Grandparent Today, Jane Isay was transformed by the births of her four grandchildren and has run groups offering a warm place to discuss grandparenting in the time of Covid. Though...