Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 5, 2022
Aaron Abeles has experienced losses no 13-year-old boy should ever know. He also has the maturity, at his age, to understand how to take those tough experiences and turn them into something good and beautiful.
"It probably won’t surprise anyone that...
“You should be a mother,” was what my own mother said to me the week before she died. I held her thin, weakened hand across the hospital bed and nodded. I was in my early 20s, and children seemed a far away possibility in an unlikely land that included...
RICHARD LAZAROFF, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 4, 2022
The number of hours we all spend using social media is creeping upward, and the pandemic has accentuated this trend. Managing how best to address this with children and adolescents in the home is a complex but necessary task for parents.
It is easiest...
BILL MOTCHAN, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 4, 2022
If you’ve ever signed a petition, written a letter to the editor or marched for a cause you believe in, you participated in a form of advocacy. It’s an act of free speech that can help call attention to important issues.
Cindy Levin has made advocacy...
(JTA) — The Jewish Telegraphic Agency and our partner sites at 70 Faces Media have answered the question many times over the years, a testament to its persistence in political life and its significance to American Jews: What do Jews say about abortion?
After...
Israeli doctors 3D-printed an ear and attached it to a six-year-old boy born with microtia, a deformity that stops the development of a baby’s ear in the womb, usually during the first trimester of pregnancy.
Using a 3D printer, staff from the plastic...
BILL MOTCHAN, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 20, 2022
For 30 years, Jewish Family Services (JFS) has visited St. Louis area schools delivering its Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP). The initiative has never been more important. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in...
“Save Our World” by Stacy and Athena (JKids Radio)
From Rick Recht: This week we celebrate Earth Day! There are SO many great kids songs from Jewish and secular artists about taking care of our planet — a message that grows more important year...
Olive WatchOS, an app that communicates via Bluetooth with Olive Diagnostics’ KG toilet-mounted sensor to display real-time health data based on passive urinalysis, is now available on the Apple Watch.
The app, which is free for individual use,...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House’s top COVID-19 response coordinator said that Americans over 60 should be getting a second vaccine booster shot, citing Israeli data.
“The data out of Israel is pretty compelling for people over 60,”...
JUDITH SUDILOVSKY, Israel21c.org
• Published April 7, 2022
Not far from Yeruham, at Ruhot Junction in southern Israel, you will find Eshkolot Farm, founded in 2009 by Simcha and Roni Marom.
They moved to this area near Mitzpeh Ramon following Roni’s retirement from the army, and established their farm based...
Lately, the news media has been full of coverage on whether schools should “teach” children about sexual orientation and gender. Like so many issues in front of the country right now, it has become politically charged where nuance is rarely heard....
