It’s not easy raising worldly kids in white-bread Ohio. I stumbled upon a solution years ago, when I was raising my first child: Get babysitters who are very different culturally from your own Anglo background, and your kids will get a little multi-dimensional upbringing. We hired Willie shortly after my son was born. She […]
Dianne the babysitter
My Jewish Roots
It’s currently Hanukkah (or Hannukah or Chanukah or חֲנֻכָּה) and time for all Gentiles to talk about how not-Jewish they are. “You’re lucky. You have Christmas for eight days,” we say to our Jewish friends, taking the oldest and most complicated religion in the world and turning it into the winner of What’s In […]