Family

By Josh Howie

Let’s talk about how our kids learn about gender

Why are Jewish kids coming home from school talking about 100 sexes?

3 min read

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May 22, 2024 11:53

J K Rowling: campaigner on trans issues (Photo: Getty)

Four simchahs in one day at Bedfordshire Progressive Synagogue

From baby blessings to an 80th birthday, all generations were celebrated

By Gaby Wine

1 min read

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May 21, 2024 07:24

Lynda and Jonathan Silver with baby Freya at Bedfordshire Progressive Synagogue (Photo: Bedfordshire Progressive Synagogue)

By Keren David

I’m so glad Dad agreed to move into a care home

My 95-year-old father was adamant he would not go into a home — but Hammerson House gave him, and us, so much

3 min read

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April 25, 2024 08:04

An overseas Pesach jaunt with my elderly parents - what could go wrong?

I’m not sure what the opposite of a health farm is but it’s probably a ‘Pesach hotel’

By Misha Mansoor

5 min read

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April 17, 2024 11:24

Chaperone: Misha Mansoor in Spain for Passover

‘Pesach is a festival of freedom but this year we will be praying for the hostages’

An Orthodox mother and a rabbi open up about how they feel in the run-up to Seder night

By Felix Pope

3 min read

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April 17, 2024 11:12

Shalvie Friedman and her son Kovi, 2, in the family's kitchen (Photo: Gary Manhine)

I didn’t tell my wife about her cancer death sentence – and she lived another 21 years

Rosie Gamp was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1999 but survived after an innovative new treatment

By Felix Pope

2 min read

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February 23, 2024 10:54

Meet the Jewish man with 37 children

Until his daughter Rachel tracked him down in 2017, Peter Ellenstein had barely thought about the sperm bank donations of his youth. Now his 37 children are his world

By Miranda Levy

8 min read

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February 22, 2024 16:53

Family matters: (top row, from left) a photo taken in 2017 of (back row) Peter’s brother David and sister Jan; (middle row) Peter (centre) with (from left) children Rachel, Courtney, Margaret and Alana; and (front row) Peter’s mother Lois

Mum moves in, my back gives up

In a household where ages span 90 years, John Nathan’s the only man in the house

By John Nathan

2 min read

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February 8, 2024 12:49

Leave the boxes to the professionals. (Photo by Wagner Meier/Getty Images)

By Keren David

I am my family’s Lilibet

Jews know how to avoid broiges over naming children – or do we?

2 min read

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January 17, 2024 12:52

WINDSOR, ENGLAND - MAY 18: Queen Elizabeth II speaks with Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex as they leave after the wedding of Lady Gabriella Windsor to Thomas Kingston at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on May 18, 2019 in Windsor, England. (Photo by Steve Parsons - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

The nerves and rituals of a Charedi wedding night

It’s a goal! Father and son find success with creation of football board game

Reunited by a war hero: How I discovered long-lost cousins through their WWII-fighting father

The infinite joys of having a big Jewish family

Camp Simcha retreat lifts spirits for families of seriously ill children

From one Jewish mum called Victoria to another… advice for our new First Lady

Jewish couple become ‘world’s oldest newlyweds’ with a combined age of 202

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