When the challenges of joint custody become overwhelming, an Israeli stepmother of two teenagers finds vacations can bring her blended family together

A feverish love of collecting masked a family’s shameful truth: There was no money.

Toby Perl Freilich’s forthcoming documentary examines the 100-year history of the kibbutz

The emailed rant that’s been making the forwarded-by-relatives rounds

As Chabad opens preschools across the country, secular parents try to reconcile the movement with the classroom

From the archives: Trying to recall the exact moment my father told me he was dying

But will presented weird incentives for dad

The author of ‘In Cheap We Trust’ on the history of a Jewish stereotype

There’s no sure way to raise kids who apologize and accept apologies

How my shrink helped me by becoming my biggest problem

The huggy, hilarious little nutball from elsewhere: my daughter

A family blurs the borders between religion, superstition, and OCD

The frenetic, hormonally charged days before a bat mitzvah

Guidebooks quell the anxieties of raising up a child

So what if he’s in diapers? He waves! He smiles! What more could you want in a leader?

Andrea Stern’s new collection of photographs chronicles the intimate life of a family—her own

In the final countdown to the big event, one chore keeps not getting done

Every 13-year-old who faces the Torah has a tough code to crack. For parents, the code may be even tougher.

When both Sung-Nam and Jerusalem beckon

Cross-cultural adoption: a multimedia documentary

So why won’t she sing at her daughter’s wedding?

What’s a secular couple to do when their 6-year-old gets into religion?