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Every year, at the start of the school year, I say something surprising to my students' parents: My primary goal for their child is that their child believes in themselves a little more than they did in September. The more I've taught, the more convinced I've become that this is the overarching goal as a […]
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Toy Story 5 arrives in theaters this week, the fifth chapter in a story that began 30 years ago. Asked in a recent Wall Street Journal interview what had most surprised him about the franchise, the director, Andrew Stanton, said the series endures because its makers were willing to let the characters grow up. Andy […]
On the morning of October 7th, retired commander Noam Tibon and his wife were swimming off the coast of Tel Aviv when they heard the first rocket siren echo above them. At first they thought it was an isolated incident that would be intercepted soon enough by the Iron Dome, so they continued swimming. But […]
Gwyneth Paltrow is either “nasty or simply stupid” and “she needs to be cancelled.” That’s the verdict from France 24, France’s Government-owned authoritative news outlet, after the actress appeared in an ad for a new apartment building in Israel. Social media users have dubbed Paltrow, whose father was Jewish and is a longstanding supporter of the […]
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Twenty-two years and six kids later, Jamie Geller reflects on what it really takes to find the right person — and why sometimes the blink of an eye is all it takes.
