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Meitar Roz keeps it positive while in the hospital in an undated photo. (Courtesy of the Roz family)
June 19, 2026, 7:49 pm
Back on his feet: Thousands fund Israeli boy’s $3.2m degenerative disease treatment
Friends, family, strangers chip in for 8-year-old Meitar Roz’s life-changing DMD therapy in campaign launched by mother and IDF reservist father after state denied request for help
By Lianne Kolirin
Parents walk a child to school, in Jerusalem, August 27, 2013. (Yossi Zamir / Flash90)
February 22, 2026, 2:46 am
With co-parenting on the rise in Israel, one advocate aims to export the model to US Jews
Former MK Michal Biran says the increasingly mainstream idea of raising a child in a platonic partnership is even more appropriate as the Jewish community bands together amid rising antisemitism
By Deborah Danan
A young Jewish boy eats at the Yad Ezra V'Shulamit center in Jerusalem, which serves hot lunch every day to more than 1,200 children under the poverty line. September 27, 2011. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
September 22, 2025, 7:00 am
More than a quarter of Israeli families suffer from food insecurity, report finds
Non-profit Latet says 2.8 million Israelis struggle to get proper nutrition, including 1.3 million children, as war and rising cost of living squeeze household income
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative. In vitro fertilization (IVF) of an egg cell. (iStock by Getty Images/ man_at_mouse)
March 10, 2025, 8:21 pm
District Court rules to keep IVF child with birth mother following embryo mix-up
Lower court had ordered custody of 2-year old ‘Sophia’ be given to genetic parents; latest ruling accepted appeal, says birth mother’s parental rights to be given preference
By Jeremy Sharon
Paul Morgan-Bentley, author of 'The Equal Parent,' left, with son Solly and husband Robin. (Courtesy)
June 26, 2023, 3:02 am
These Jewish gay dads show how parenting benefits from a shifting division of labor
In ‘The Equal Parent,’ UK author Paul Morgan-Bentley argues that parents are already sharing the load in rearing kids, which is great for families – now society needs to adapt, too
By Robert Philpot
Author Rich Cohen (left) and his father Herb Cohen with 'Mick Jagger,' New York, 2016. (Courtesy of Rich Cohen)
May 27, 2022, 1:28 pm
From Brooklyn gang to the Oval Office: Meet negotiator extraordinaire Herb Cohen
Rich Cohen’s latest book, ‘The Adventures of Herbie Cohen,’ is part biography and part family memoir, centering on his father, an international deal-making guru
By Renee Ghert-Zand
From left: Marcella Morris as a young woman; Ruth Morris in her high school yearbook; Selma Morris as a young woman (Courtesy of Julie Klam)
September 20, 2021, 7:10 am
Truth trumps fiction in family mythbuster on quirky turn-of-the-century sisters
In ‘The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters,’ Julie Klam travels the globe to separate the truth from the lore about her grandmother’s 4 philanthropic chain-smoking millionaire cousins
By Renee Ghert-Zand
From the WebApril 8, 2021, 12:38 am
A Queens rabbi unlocked my grandmother’s story of surviving Auschwitz
She baked for us and gardened. We knew her story. But even after all she’d been through, I never heard her grapple with faith. I’m so glad she had someone to turn to
By Ilana Fodiman-Silverman
Israeli children watch as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a live press conference on the new government restrictions for the public regarding the coronavirus COVID-19 on March 19, 2020. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
March 28, 2020, 8:55 am
How to get through the virus lockdown with your marriage and family intact
A clinical psychologist and couples therapist gives some tips on how to survive under new pressures of pandemic rules
By Sue Surkes
Rebecca Schull plays a Jewish matriarch with a shocking secret past in 'The Last.' (Plainview Pictures)
March 28, 2019, 4:28 am
NY Jewish family learns its beloved bubbe is really a Nazi nurse, in new film
In ‘The Last’ opening March 29, veteran actor Rebecca Schull is heart of provocative story about nonagenarian who decides to reveal her true identity to her progeny before she dies
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Members of the LGBT community and supporters participate in a demonstration against a Knesset bill amendment denying surrogacy for same-sex couples, in Tel Aviv on July 22, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 10, 2018, 9:05 pm
New Israeli religious group aims to combat LGBTs for ‘destroying family values’
Movement will launch online campaign against surrogacy and adoption rights, plans to hold demonstration in Tel Aviv
By ToI Staff
Chaim I. Waxman
July 23, 2018, 2:12 pm
Chaim I. Waxman
The fertility of American Jewry
Jews worrying about demographics was around before Steven M. Cohen and his research, and it will be around after him too
Jill Jacobs
June 27, 2018, 3:03 pm
Jill Jacobs
Sodom outlawed immigrants too
The US should look out — a country that closes its doors to those seeking refuge inevitably destroys itself
Mark Cooper
June 22, 2018, 7:06 pm
Mark Cooper
I don’t care what the Bible says
Sure, let’s reform Immigration, but not by weaponizing biblical verses to justify a policy of separating families
Ruthi Soudack
June 13, 2018, 3:13 pm
Ruthi Soudack
I can’t blame it all on anti-Semitism, can I?
When the drop-down list of countries on the yoga registration form doesn’t include Israel
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