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Or so says the 88 year old grandmother of the Bar Mitzvah boy I met last weekend. But, you know what I've realized? People who are get...

Some of you have been on the Friends of Jer (FOJ) list for over 15 years. I was reading an email I sent out 11 years ago that said there we...

I've been meaning to blog about this for a while. Check out http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/ You'll need to install something calle...

Was talking with my sister Kira about the concept of hyphenated last names, say Joe Mother's Name-Father's Name. The thing we were...

Someone had sent me an article from NYT about this man, but HT to Mike Eisenberg's blog, here's the video.

what is better than two kids enjoying the innocence of a springtime seesaw?

It's not often that my wonderful liberal friends agree with Op-Ed's from the WSJ, but Peggy Noonan's piece today about Hillary C...

It's not the middle of the night requests for blanket adjustment or water. It's not the incessant demands for "pasta" or ...

Growing up, my dad would invite guests at our home to offer up "ethical dilemmas" for discussion. Yesterday, I received an ethica...

At first I thought, "another self-help book by a would-be know-it-all." I'd read Penelope Trunk's columns over the years...

Think back to your childhood. There must be certain snapshots of your homelife, of carefree days that are etched in your memory that represe...

This is a remarkable presentation , for many reasons, about how your brain works. Real brain included.

but it may be reality. Some sobering thoughts on the prospects for Middle East 'peace'.

So Take Back the House Day was a huge success. The whole team pitched in. It was inspired. At some point, as we were processing all of the...

With my intense passion for the issue of dependency on foreign oil as a strategic threat to Western Civilization (see Syriana , The Prize ,t...

Between the birth of Nitzahn, the Simchat Bat, and all of the craziness of Purim, we have lost control of our home. Today, it's an ...

I was inspired by "Fun with Dick and Jane" to meet up with my financial advisor. Actually, it was the comment to the post that rea...

I made a mistake last week. One of the wonderful aspects of our community is that other families will prepare meals for you in the weeks fol...

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You know how I feel about anonymous comments, but I'm making an exception. Whoever took the time to write this one , well...