Parenting

Here's What It Was Like to Grow Up on a Kibbutz

Aron Hirt-Manheimer

What was it like to grow up in a communal children’s house on an Israeli kibbutz? Rachel Biale was born in 1952 and raised on Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin, overlooking the Jordan River. She is the author of the new memoir Growing Up Below Sea Level: A Kibbutz Childhood.

On Fathers, Father Figures, and the Jewish Concept of "L'dor Vador"

Stuart L. Leviton

Each Father's Day, I reflect on my father, now deceased, and my relationship with him, and his relationship with me. I also reflect on the men who have become father figures to me, not so much in place of my father, but as wonderful supplements who continue to