Results for “Mother Jones”

Though both my parents were part of the pioneer generation, my mother, unlike my father, actually arrived as a pioneer, part of a Jewish youth group from Poland that came directly to the kibbutz. In addition to being more naturally outgoing than my father, she came to see Mishmar...

…floor and required no pressing of buttons. The rabbis answered these questions for us, but they didn’t always agree. My mother had little patience with most of the local rabbis because her late father, who was not a rabbi, “knew so much more than they did,” and always resolved re...

…ated at games and stole clothes from other children’s lockers. Debbie, age eight, was the eldest of four children. Her mother was a street prostitute with an expensive drug habit. Debbie was thin, restless and worried. A self-appointed mother from the age of four, Debbie felt re...

…latter. Another blessing of my early religious training relates to memory and my use of it in my professional life. My mother was blessed (cursed?) with a near perfect memory. (Probably more nature than nurture.) She could recall virtually everything from her youth. When she was...

…nce of five to sex years, which was at the low end of the guideline. It was then that the judge heard from the victim's mother. In a statement, the mother decried the emotional and mental trauma her daughter suffered and the long road to recovery she had ahead of her. The mother...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 and Ralph Branca (whose mother, it now turns out, was Jewish!). Jackie Robinson, who was our real hero, generally was driven to the stadium for safety reasons. I will never forget Jackie Robinson’s first game with the Dodgers. We persuaded our European-born rab...

… came from a well, and it lacked even the basic creature comforts of the cramped Godin apartment in Warsaw, that, to my mother, was just part of the challenge, and the dream, she’d embraced and had come to define her. I know that she felt, on arriving in the kibbutz, that only no...

…ng sons and strong daughters... who find the baggage of the 'feminist’ label distasteful.” I've thought a lot about my mother's comment that feminism "eats its young.” One 2009 New Yorker article about feminism by Ariel Levy offered an interesting analysis of feminist divisions,...

… judged me with all the worst things I thought of myself -- but instead, he trusted me to do my best. When I called my mother (long separated from my dad), too many of my flatmates were around for a private conversation indoors. I banished myself into a warm summer storm, cradli...

…ce of five to sex years, which was at the low end of the guideline. It was then that the judge heard from the victim’s mother. In a statement, the mother decried the emotional and mental trauma her daughter suffered and the long road to recovery she had ahead of her. The mother...

Though both my parents were part of the pioneer generation, my mother, unlike my father, actually arrived as a pioneer, part of a Jewish youth group from Poland that came directly to the kibbutz. In addition to being more naturally outgoing than my father, she came to see Mishmar...

… came from a well, and it lacked even the basic creature comforts of the cramped Godin apartment in Warsaw, that, to my mother, was just part of the challenge, and the dream, she’d embraced and had come to define her. I know that she felt, on arriving in the kibbutz, that only no...

…ce of five to sex years, which was at the low end of the guideline. It was then that the judge heard from the victim’s mother. In a statement, the mother decried the emotional and mental trauma her daughter suffered and the long road to recovery she had ahead of her. The mother...

…nce of five to sex years, which was at the low end of the guideline. It was then that the judge heard from the victim's mother. In a statement, the mother decried the emotional and mental trauma her daughter suffered and the long road to recovery she had ahead of her. The mother...

…ned while | was watching 7he Roseanne Show. | had never seen it before, but she was interviewing Paula Jones and, as my mother used to say, curiosity got the best of me. Ms. Jones was telling Roseanne about the first time she saw me in that hotel. She was working at the courtesy...