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I Flew to Israel to Help. A Brain Tumor Almost Killed Me First

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Six Things Children Need from Their Parents

Every child should be raised in a way that matches their unique personality and potential. But all children share some common, foundational needs. Here are six things every child needs from their parents. Attention and Time Children crave their parents' focused attention, time devoted just to them. A parent communicates that their child matters most […]

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What Bobbi Brown Gets Right About Beauty

Beauty mogul Bobbi Brown, the first to build a makeup company around skincare, is a visionary. In the ‘80s, when everyone was caking on makeup to hide imperfections, she took a different approach—enhancing your natural beauty by using less product. Her definition of beauty is more than skin deep. At a time when the industry […]

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The Kurdish Jews Who Never Stopped Speaking Aramaic
Aramaic, the language of the Talmud and the Kaddish, was supposed to have died out centuries ago. One community in the mountains of Kurdistan never got the memo.

For most Jews today, Aramaic is a language locked behind the gates of ancient Judaism. It's the dense, scholarly text of the Talmud, the mystical language of the Zohar, the legal phrasing of the Ketubah (marriage contract), the solemn declaration of Kol Nidre, and the comforting cadences of the Kaddish. It serves as a linguistic […]

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The Jihadist who Converted to Judaism
Yaron Avraham’s Journey from a Shahid in Training to a Committed Jew.

Growing up in a religious Muslim Arab family in Lod in the 1980s, Yaron Avraham was exposed to crime and violence from a young age. As a seven-year-old, he was sent to distribute drugs to his family’s customers in the neighborhood. At age nine, things went from bad to worse. Yaron’s 16-year-old sister, whom he’d […]

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Working a Shift at the Milky Way, the Spielberg's Family Restaurant

Jamie Geller lends a hand at the legendary kosher dairy restaurant that's been feeding Jewish LA for almost 50 years.

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