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Wendy Kalman
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Jul 2, 2018, 11:11 AM
When my soul comes home
Last Sunday I traveled to Israel for the first time since I moved back to the United States in 2003, accompanied by my fiancé who had never visited before. For me, it felt like a long-delayed coming home, For him, it is all new. My...
Marc H. Wilson
Marc H. Wilson
Jun 30, 2018, 12:42 AM
Sit down, Mishuganer!
Does anyone remember images of those misanthropes who stood on their soapboxes and harangued the passing crowd on everything from the End of Days to the evils of fluoridated water? My Grandpa Julius was one of those misanthropes, every Sunday in Chicago’s Wicker Park berating...
Wendy Kalman
Wendy Kalman
Jun 25, 2018, 1:30 PM
Why we should care about others
In the aftermath of the discovery of what our administration is doing to families as they come through our borders, I have seen a number of disturbing reactions. One cable personality doesn’t understand why anyone should care about them, since “these aren’t our kids.” Last...
Marc H. Wilson
Marc H. Wilson
Jun 20, 2018, 6:59 PM
Prelude to ‘Eerie Foreshadowing…’
This afternoon, I heard a recording of little immigrant children wailing, sobbing, crying, calling for “mama!” torn from mama’s arms, denied comfort, incarcerated, in many instances caged, away from a mama drying tears, just 4:1000 social workers, the cruelty of police hooting “It’s an orchestra...
Elana Bekerman Frank
Elana Bekerman Frank
Jun 20, 2018, 12:11 AM
The other half: Male infertility
The Jewish Fertility Foundation helps provide funding for fertility treatments and emotional support to individuals and couples experiencing infertility. Some ways we offer support are through support groups led by licensed infertility therapists, the Fertility Buddies peer-to-peer mentorship program (with currently over 75 active participants),...
Wendy Kalman
Wendy Kalman
Jun 18, 2018, 11:16 AM
Children need their parents
Children need stability and predictability in their lives. Two-thousand children have just had the most stable and predictable part of their lives — their parents — taken away from them and in instead were placed in a strange place with no information and no understanding...
Marc H. Wilson
Marc H. Wilson
Jun 15, 2018, 10:07 PM
Eerie foreshadowing
[Caveat emptor:  I first composed this essay in June 2016.  Now, precisely two years later, babies are being ripped from their mothers’ arms and incarcerated away from their frantic parents, justified by a grotesque citation of Biblical passages.  The President plays kissy-kissy with maniacal megalomaniacs...
Wendy Kalman
Wendy Kalman
Jun 11, 2018, 9:09 AM
How can I do better
The thought behind creating this blog in the first place was to be able to take the multiple perspectives I think I bring to any given situation and use them to offer a voice which is helpful. I’d like to address each of those elements,...
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