Meir Panim: Lighting Up Life for Israel’s Neediest Residents Across Israel, Meir Panim responds to the growing needs of the country’s 1.75 million impoverished residents through various food and social service programs.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Make Men More Mature Rather than Send Girls Under the Knife
Posted on: March 28th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → America's Rabbi / Shmuley BoteachIs this what three thousand and three hundred years of Jewish tradition has come to, that a nation that has always dared to walk alone, with different ideals and values from the wider culture, should so fully capitulate to the most corrupt, misogynistic values, that we would advocate that our young women have plastic surgery in order to get married?
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Gila Manolson: A Response to Yitta Halberstam’s Plea to Mothers of Girls in Shidduchim
Posted on: March 26th, 2012
Sections → FamilyDon't worry, Yitta, I'm not going to crucify you, as you feared. I actually agreed with the gist of your article, which was obviously heartfelt and well-intended. I just want to point out where you crossed a line...
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Posted on: March 23rd, 2012
Sections → Family → Marriage and RelationshipsDear Dr. Respler: I recently lost my husband of 51 years, and I am very depressed. He was a true talmid chacham and a loving husband. Every morning when he was well, he went to shul early. He never missed a minyan and he learned every day. All his life he ran a business and, baruch Hashem, he worked hard and took excellent care of our children and me. I look at my grandsons and my grandsons-in-law and they don’t hold a candle to my husband. Even the children who learn in kollel are not as careful as my husband was about being on time for minyan. Everyone seems too busy for me, and I feel very lonely.
Remembering: A Year Later (Part II)
Posted on: March 23rd, 2012
Sections → Family → Parenting Our ChildrenIn the first part of this article (Family Issues 3-2-2012) I shared the many memories resulting from my year of avaylus (mourning) for my mother. This week I would like to connect those memories to a better understanding of how good could potentially come from bad happenings in an effort to improve relationships.
Chronicles Of Crises In Our Communities
Posted on: March 22nd, 2012
Sections → Family → Chronicles of Crises.
Purim And The Tyranny Of Beauty: A Plea to Mothers of Girls in Shidduchim
Posted on: March 19th, 2012
Sections → FamilyI know I’m going to be crucified, but if the appeal I make below helps even one girl in shidduchim, then it will be worth all the fury and outrage that shall inevitably descend upon my soon-to-be beleaguered head.
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Twice Exceptional: Smart Kids With Learning Disabilities
Posted on: March 16th, 2012
Sections → Family → Parenting Our ChildrenIt was Yehudah’s third birthday party. Instead of calmly interacting with his guests, he either ignored them or bossed them around with his limited vocabulary of ten words. He ran around nonstop and elbowed every person in his path. Then, his mother, Shoshana, decided he needed some time to himself so she asked him to play quietly in the den for a few minutes.
To A Lonely Wife: Give It A Rest!
Posted on: March 15th, 2012
Sections → Family → Marriage and RelationshipsDear Dr. Yael: I read the March 2 letter from A Lonely Wife who feels unappreciated and neglected as she seeks more attention from her husband. It is necessary for her to receive a reality check – in other words, mussar. While apparently having it all, she is unfulfilled. Well, how would she feel if […]
Chronicles Of Crises In Our Communities
Posted on: March 15th, 2012
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Posted on: March 15th, 2012
Sections → Family → Marriage and RelationshipsWhat's more important - love or money? Let's hear what a 90-year-old woman sitting in front of two elevators in a nursing home had to say. I asked her, "If both elevator doors opened at the same time, and out of one came the richest man in the world, and out of the other came the nicest man in the world, who would you want to marry?" She thought about it for a good while and then answered, "Both of them."
Posted on: March 9th, 2012
Sections → Family → Parenting Our ChildrenDear Dr. Respler: I enjoyed your recent column concerning the jealousy a girl had toward her newborn brother.
Et Le’Ehov: The Newlywed’s Guide to Physical Intimacy
Posted on: March 9th, 2012
Sections → Family → Marriage and RelationshipsFor most physicians specializing in the treatment of infertility, the subject of sexuality - and especially the "how to’s" of sex - are rarely a subject of concern.
Chronicles Of Crises In Our Communites
Posted on: March 9th, 2012
Sections → Family → Chronicles of Crises.
1A Mother Remembered: A Year Later (Part I)
Posted on: March 1st, 2012
Sections → Family → Parenting Our ChildrenIn her ninety-eighth year my mother beat pneumonia twice. She always said that she would know when her time was up – and she did. People would ask her what she attributed her many years to. Though she was not raised in a religious home, she would always say that Hashem knew what He was doing. We learn in the Torah when one honors parents the reward is a long life. She was certainly proof of this.
Chronicles Of Crises In Our Communities
Posted on: March 1st, 2012
Sections → Family → Chronicles of CrisesMore Commentary On Bais Yaakov’s High School Education
Getting Your Husband’s Attention
Posted on: March 1st, 2012
Sections → Family → Marriage and RelationshipsDr. Yael replies to a woman who feels like she's playing second fiddle to her husband's myriad phone calls, business deals, medical emergencies, and everyone else who needs him so desperately. Despite the fact that he buys her beautiful jewelry and gifts, that they live in a stunning house and have cleaners and babysitters, all this does not substitute for the intimacy and warmth that she craves from him.
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Posted on: February 24th, 2012
Sections → Family → Marriage and RelationshipsDear Dr. Yael: As a reader of all of your columns on hakaras hatov, here are my feelings as a child with loving parents.
Looking Asperger’s Syndrome in the Eye
Posted on: February 24th, 2012
Sections → Family → Parenting Our ChildrenAsperger’s Syndrome was first described in the 1940s by Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger, who noticed that he had many patients who were deficient in social and communicative skills even though they had normal language development and cognitive abilities. Professionals still debate as to whether Asperger’s Syndrome is “high-functioning autism” or whether it is its own disorder completely. Regardless, in 1994, Asperger’s Syndrome was added to The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) as a separate disorder from autism.
Chronicles Of Crises In Our Communities
Posted on: February 24th, 2012
Sections → Family → Chronicles of CrisesA Female Member of the Satmar Community in Williamsburg takes Deborah Feldman to task for her allegations in a recent newspaper interview…
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Multi-Generation Blended Family
Posted on: February 17th, 2012
Sections → Family → Parenting Our ChildrenMulti-generational families are making a comeback these days. For some the choice is made out of necessity because of the unstable economy, for others it is due to the physical needs of either the younger generation or aging parents. And then sometimes the decision to live this way is out of a mutual desire to be full and present participants in extended family life. For us it was a combination of factors that brought us to this point.
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