November 10, 2023
One thing that so many parents struggled with during the pandemic was finding appropriate help for their children – particularly when it came to their kids’ mental health needs. “There […]
November 2, 2023
Elise Long thought that, maybe, going to class at the University of Minnesota would give her some respite from the awfulness she watched unfold in the hours after Israel was […]
November 2, 2023
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, On the way to the bus stop last week, […]
October 26, 2023
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, My two sons have four years between them. When […]
October 23, 2023
It’s been a heavy couple of weeks, so for this week’s Who The Folk?!, we opt for a little levity and a lot of randomness with Terri Lindenbaum, who among other […]
October 12, 2023
This piece originally ran on the JFCS Blog. The brutality of the attack on Israel is conveyed in the graphic images and details we see on the news. It is […]
October 12, 2023
Several 501c4 non-profits are looking to tip the ideological balance in at least 13 school districts – 12 of them metro area suburbs, in this year’s elections. Election Day is […]
September 21, 2023
Dear Miriam, During Rosh Hashanah, I noticed a few people who were reading books other than the machzor during services. It seemed both like a great idea to have something […]
September 5, 2023
The other day, when I was washing dishes, I noticed something new about how my four-year-old son was watching videos. For the first time, he was moving the video progress […]
August 30, 2023
When Micah Siva’s sister was pregnant with her child during the height of the COVID pandemic, she was looking for a baby gift that would be cute and give some […]