Tomorrow, for the first time in over six years, a new week will begin and I won’t return to my job as an editor of Harper’s Magazine. Layoffs have come to Harper’s, and I was targeted for removal because, to borrow the cheery terminology of my employer, my efforts could easily be “absorbed” by the …
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Israeli Parents: I got nothing
So, as promised, I am going to deliver the shocking report on Israeli parenting…actually, I’m not. I had dinner with an Israeli family–mom, dad, and two-year-old boy–but they were all American-born, American-speaking, and they lived in an ultra-orthodox neighborhood that was almost entirely made up of Americans who come to Israel for a few years …
Why I Wish You Were Here
Many of the posts related to travel on this site have to do with missing our children, the impact on them of our being absent for periods of time, and the varying degrees of guilt and non-guilt we feel when pulled away by our work. I can offer a simple reason for this: we miss …
DadWagon: Promised Land (for some) Edition
Matt typically is the one to file the ain’t those foreign daddies something strange? posts, but I’ll give it a go anyway. I’m in Jerusalem for the week, doing research for a book I’m writing about, uh, Jews. (I pause because every time I write something about Judaism on this site we get a lot of …
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