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Noah Pozner, 6, was the youngest of 20 child victims of the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that also claimed six adults. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Pozner family)
Posted inColumns

As a mom, it’s getting harder to pretend away school shootings

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein March 11, 2018March 9, 2018
Nicki Gilbert's eldest
Posted inColumns

College-bound but still a teenager, and life changes again

by Nicki Gilbert February 27, 2018
Drew Himmelstein misses her old synagogue — where she didn't feel hidden away at "family programming." (Photo/file)
Posted inColumns

On shul-shopping with kids. Why silo us off into ‘family programming’?

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein February 7, 2018February 8, 2018
Statue of John Wesley, on whose teachings Methodist Christianity was founded, in Wesley Square at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky (Photo/Wikimedia-TheBigGiant)
Posted inColumns

How can we raise our boys as Jews with Christian heritage?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler January 29, 2018February 8, 2018
Parenting columnist Nicki Gilbert after her first zipline experience
Posted inColumns

How my kids push me past my fears and out of my comfort zone

by Nicki Gilbert January 25, 2018
(File photo)
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$788k for early Jewish childhood programs around the Bay

by J. Staff January 21, 2018January 23, 2018
King Friday: a benevolent monarch who also holds referenda regarding such crucial issues as playground equipment
Posted inColumns

Making sense of ‘Daniel Tiger,’ ‘Babar’ and our kids’ other baffling TV universes

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein January 12, 2018March 23, 2018
Home for Hanukkah with the Gilberts
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Twinkling holiday lights overshadow my Jewish center

by Nicki Gilbert December 17, 2017December 15, 2017
Children exploring the Brooklyn Children’s Museum
(Photo/Flickr-Brooklyn Children’s Museum CC BY 2.0)
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In kid-friendly Brooklyn, realizing the parenting resources missing from S.F.

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein December 11, 2017December 11, 2017
From the cover of 
Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas," one of many Jewish children's books delivered free to Jewish families across the country
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PJ Library will gives East Bay families $150 to ‘get together’

by J. Staff December 8, 2017

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