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Family
From Generation to Generation
In a collaboration between jGirls Magazine and Hadassah Magazine, six mother-daughter pairs unpack their dreams and fears, similarities and differences, untold stories and the impact of Judaism on their lives.

In a series of interviews, six mother-daughter pairs unpack their dreams and fears, and the impact of Judaism on their lives.
Physical Inheritance
Despite our era’s embrace of Marie Kondo and the new religion of decluttering, an argument can still be made for the power of physical items to convey a sense of places and people left behind.

Despite our era’s embrace of Marie Kondo and decluttering, an argument can still be made for the power of physical items to convey a sense of places and people left behind.
Family
The Awful Truth
A mother has to tell the awful truth about a diagnosis of cancer to her teenage son.

A mother has to tell the awful truth about a diagnosis of cancer to her teenage son.
Family
An Unvirtual Day
Turn off that device, shut down the computer, log out of your email, it is time for a day of rest from the constant distractions of modern technology.

Turn off that device and shut down the computer, it is time for a day of rest from the distractions of modern technology.

Isaac Soloway may be a fairly typical Los Angeles Jewish teenager, but his bar mitzva was anything but the standard Jewish coming-of-age ritual. The event

Family

Family Matters: Basket in the Nile

by Leora Eren Frucht

I am seated in a dim room, my son lying on a bed beside me. His eyes are closed, his thick dark lashes brushing his

Family

The Crystal Monitor

I hoped I was done with flimflam in 1952 when a Coney Island fortuneteller sent my Orthodox mother’s life savings up in smoke. But now

Family

Family Matters: Dream Come True, With Complications

by Jessica Steinberg

I used to dream of getting married and becoming a mother. And as one of four kids, I always wanted four of my own children.

Being Jewish
Family

Cut & Post

A Dreidel ’Round Your Wrist In a rainbow of colors and designs—from the alef-bet to Noah’s Ark and its pairs of animals—Biblical Bandz are sweeping the tween-to-teen

Family

Commentary: Our Bodies, Our Homes

by Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon

I recently spent two nights with my sister and her husband, Joshua Cahan, at a private beach house on the Pacific. The trip was a

Family

Family Matters: Saving Graces

by Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon

In Jewish life, we frequently use physical objects to engage in God’s mitzvot, but while these rituals are transitory, the objects are not. In most

Family

Family Matters: Steel Drum Hora

by Michele Chabin

On a cold February day in 2008, my husband, Sid, and I heard the words we had long anticipated. a “Dad, Michele, Leslie and I