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Illustrative: A baby receives a routine vaccine. (naumoid; iStock by Getty Images)
November 25, 2025, 4:57 pm
Amid measles outbreak, study finds skepticism of routine vaccines soared during COVID
Bar-Ilan researcher finds that 6.6% of parents who vaccinated an older child before the pandemic chose not to vaccinate a younger child; ‘enough to trigger’ current outbreak
By Diana Bletter
People dance underneath a giant rainbow banner during the 21st annual Jerusalem Pride Parade in Jerusalem on June 1, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
March 21, 2024, 3:57 pm
High Court orders government to redo birth certificates for same-sex couple moms
Ruling hailed as historic win for LGBTQ parents seeking to have second mother added to child’s legal document following years-long struggle
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Scott Hershovitz with his sons Rex and Hank (Courtesy of Scott Hershovitz)
August 22, 2022, 1:32 am
New book encourages adults to nurture the little philosophers in their lives
Writing with a good dose of humor about his own two sons, University of Michigan professor Scott Hershowitz explains why we should always take kids’ questions about life seriously
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Similac on sale at the Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem, on February 3, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 5, 2022, 10:47 am
Stores report rising baby food thefts as price rises drive parents to desperation
Companies report 30-45% jump in stolen goods, leading to stores securing products behind counters, as parents struggle to afford up to NIS 150 per week for formula
By Michael Horovitz
A woman wearing protection mask looks on through the window, at San Martin nursing home, where several elderly people were infected by coronavirus in Vitoria, northern Spain, Thursday, March 19, 2020. Spain will mobilize 200 billion euros or the equivalent to one fifth of the country's annual output in loans, credit guarantees and subsidies for workers and vulnerable citizens, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Tuesday. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some, it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
March 25, 2020, 5:42 am
Virus tears families apart as children strive to protect elderly by staying away
‘It dawned on me last night that I may never see, kiss or touch my sick father again before he dies,’ says one distraught daughter
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Israeli youth during a remote learning session at their home in Moshav Yashresh, on March 18, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
March 21, 2020, 8:06 pm
‘Step away’: How to not kill your kids during coronavirus lockdown
Child protection professionals express considerable worry over risks with families locked up 24/7 together for an indefinite period
By Julie CHARPENTRAT
Miriam Green (left), with her mother, Naomi Cohen, circa 1983 (Courtesy Miriam Green)
November 8, 2019, 2:25 pm
A daughter shares lessons from her mom in memoir on Alzheimer’s and cooking
Witnessing her mother’s ongoing decline, Miriam Green poured poems, recipes and anecdotes into ‘The Lost Kitchen’
By Jessica Steinberg
The Vainer twins, just hanging out (Courtesy Guy Vainer)
January 8, 2018, 1:38 pm
This Israeli dad takes absurd photos of his twin boys
From superheroes to a couple of guys having a beer in a bar, Guy Vainer documents his baby sons’ first years with outlandish, photoshopped pictures
By Jessica Steinberg
Daniel Mariuma Merom (L) and Yonatan Marton Merom (R) in the hospital after the birth of their son Tomer (courtesy)
November 1, 2016, 1:16 am
Court to hear case of ‘unrecognized’ transgender father
Interior Ministry said to be refusing to register Daniel and Yonatan Merom as fathers of their biological son
By ToI Staff
Filmmaker Joshua Seftel (left) and artist and photographer Phillip Toledano (Doron Gild)
September 25, 2016, 4:52 pm
Artist lives to tell what it’s like to age and die, many times over
With ‘The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano,’ Joshua Seftel documents photographer Phillip Toledano’s transformative quest to exorcise his fears for the future
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Shira Pasternak Be'eri
July 15, 2016, 3:14 pm
Shira Pasternak Be'eri
Take now my son
The pride and pathos of handing a child over to the IDF
Author Helen Maryles Shankman brings X-Men sensibilities to Holocaust horrors in Wlodawa, Poland. (courtesy)
May 27, 2016, 5:31 pm
Raised with miracle of parents’ survival, author writes magical Holocaust tales
With the X-Men and vampires as her influences, Helen Maryles Shankman brings ‘fabulist’ realism to Wlodawa, Poland
By Matt Lebovic
An illustrative photo of first-grade pupils and their teacher at Paula Ben Gurion school, Jerusalem, in August. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
September 9, 2012, 11:10 pm
Eilat students kept out of school as parents protest integration of migrants’ children
Supreme Court ruling forces resort city to place 30 children in four schools
By Michal Shmulovich
Etgar Keret (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
August 5, 2012, 10:26 pm
Punch, drunk, love
Gypsy music, an enraged monkey, and public urination — writer Etgar Keret recounts the sequence of events that brought his parents together
By Etgar Keret
Sarah Tuttle-Singer
June 24, 2012, 4:26 pm
Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Word to my mother
My mom was an intensely private person, a real lady who would never in a gazillion years dream of smearing her shit all over the internet
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