Becoming a grandparent is a joyful new chapter — but what if a close friend's child is facing infertility? This resource from Yesh Tikva offers thoughtful, practical guidance for sharing your joy with sensitivity and supporting your friend with care....
Come visit the nine destinations in the Family Room, a unique virtual space on the Jewish Grandparents Network website with experiences and resources that can enrich everyday interactions and experiences with grandchildren...
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In this three-session course, grandparents explore what it means to be a leader in their own families and ways to enrich and strengthen their relationships with their children and grandchildren....
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...
“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...
"There are fifty latkes on this tray,” my 95-year-old mother says. I nod and continue peeling potatoes. My sister is frying. My niece is chopping onions. My mother spreads another paper towel on a cookie sheet and continues counting. It’s that time of year. Where the women...
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...
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...
Think you know your grandparents? This scavenger hunt will take your whole family on a journey of discovery — from baby photos to first dates to the ships that carried your ancestors to a new world....
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