Tag: Children
Some memories live forever …
Doesn’t it seem like yesterday when your first child was born? To me, it does, and decades later, you recall the excitement—more appropriately called nervousness—that had been building as the “due date” approached. Lamaze birth classes are...
Bubbe and Zayde: Now’s the time to teach ‘di kinder’ a thing or two
“I don’t live in the past but the past lives in me.” — Sol Fineblum
For Gershon Markowitz, this time of year presents an irresistible opportunity to engage in some of his favorite activities with...
How to help Jewish children around the world be safer at school
While we all watched in horror the anti-Israel, anti-Jewish protests on campuses across America, communal leaders found themselves befuddled about viable solutions: Do we fight back? Encourage students to run away? Confront the aggressors,...
Parents of Paris antisemitic gang-rape victim speak out
The parents of the 12-year-old girl, identified only as “A,” who was gang raped in a Paris suburb on June 15 recently spoke with French daily Le Parisien “to bear witness to the ordeal experienced by...
Sydney bakery battered for Hamas-themed birthday cake
A baker in Sydney has ignited online condemnation for creating a birthday cake featuring imagery associated with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
The cake, meant for a 4-year-old boy’s party, prompted fury from Jewish groups and Australian...
UN agencies randomly use statistic that child in Gaza killed every 10 minutes
U.N. agencies cite Hamas statistics regularly without noting that the numbers come from a terrorist organization, though are inconsistent in which statistics they use.
Officials at the global agency continue to assert that a Gazan...
Why does Hamas not care about Gaza kids?
Israeli children’s safety does not seem to preoccupy the world. This may be understandable. Israel is a militarily powerful country and should manage to protect its own kids. Why should the world worry?
On the other...
Sylvan Adams named goodwill ambassador for Make-A-Wish Israel
The Israel branch of an international foundation that works to fulfill the wishes of children with critical illnesses has been expanded to include helping those physically wounded with multi-system trauma by the Oct. 7...
Catch the Holocaust before it disappears
If you’re a Jew looking for sympathy in these sucker-punch days of hyper-antisemitism, find a way to transport yourself back to the early 1990s, a time when Holocaust memory—“Schindler’s List”; the opening of the...
Telling the story of the heroes of Oct. 7
Eran the potato farmer. Rachel the food hostess. Michaela the midwife.
All three are residents of the northwestern Negev who were caught in Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre; all three are heroes who were able to...