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Lisa Samick was 35 when she watched her younger sister, a new mother, die of metastatic breast cancer. Judah Schiller was 35 when he was

Family

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

by Nancy Kalikow Maxwell

For my 61st birthday, I decided to buy myself a man. I do not mean that I resurrected slavery, nor did I hire a male

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Family Matters: Back to School

by Judith Haberman Forman

It is a sunny autumn morning and here I am, at 8:45, having sacrificed my leisurely coffee and toast breakfast, hurrying to catch my grandchildren’s

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Family Matters: Match Points

by Shira Forman

Last August, as I celebrated my fifth wedding anniversary, I quietly marked another anniversary of sorts: half a decade of searching, meddling, advising, consoling, celebrating—and

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Family Matters: New Love in an Old City

by Robert Hirschfield

Who ever saw Jerusalem naked?/ Even archaeologists never did. —Yehuda Amichai Other than in Israeli poet Amichai’s works—and in the story of King David—Jerusalem is seldom

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Family Matters: Under My Skin

by Harvey Silverman

There was always a jar of chicken fat in the refrigerator when I was growing up. Interesting stuff, chicken fat. It is solid but soft,

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Family Matters: Kosher Tattoos

by David Bartal

Five years ago, my son, Yoav, and I were both lying on narrow cots in a corridor of Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. My

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Family Matters: Extending an Arm

by Beth Kissileff

When my husband was let go from his job with a nonprofit due to downsizing, we were filled with uncertainty and terror for the future.