A former colleague once told me, “You are a blip on your child’s radar.” At the time my kids were young, but it wasn’t all that long after that I understood what she meant. Those words came back to haunt me earlier this month when my husband...

With a long-running off-Broadway show called "25 Questions for a Jewish Mother," you can imagine that for comedian Judy Gold, family is a wellspring of opportunity. "My mother is so annoying, but I have to call her every day so I can get some material,"...

Vanessa Van Petten, author and youthologist, will be the keynote speaker at this year's Yom Limmud Day of Discovery for Teens on Sunday, Nov. 20, sponsored by the Central Agency for Jewish Education. The Jewish Light interviewed Van Petten recently about...