At age 50, I am happily reinventing myself. When my first child was born I left computer programming to be a full time mom. For the last 24 years I filled my life raising three kids, managing our home and with fulfilling volunteer work and writing. I have no regrets but was worrying a lot about what to do next, about finding work.
About 15 years ago I began to take yoga.
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By Miriam Bradman Abrahams
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12/8/11
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The June 8 terrorist massacre in Tel Aviv exposed all five of the major myths that cloud discussions of Israel and the Palestinians.
Myth #1: “The problem is the settlements”
This …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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6/16/16
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“To be or not to be” is not always the question. Sometimes the question is how to be? Should we be happy, or should we be sad? Should we be at war, or should we be at peace? Should we feel hate, or should we love?
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By Evan W. Klesztick
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8/10/11
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The phrase “demilitarized Palestinian state” is the very definition of an oxymoron — “a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in …
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6/20/18
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New Jersey attorney Stephen M. Flatow is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. He writes this from a tense Jerusalem.
After every Palestinian …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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10/29/15
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It’s that dirty little secret which nobody wants to talk about, because it makes everybody uncomfortable. It hovers in the background, it’s hidden in the closet, and it lingers in the …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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1/13/16
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To hear the news media tell it, Israel’s Knesset has approved extreme right-wing legislation that will steal Palestinian land by legalizing illegal outposts and thereby demolish the last hopes …
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By Stephen M. Flatow, JNS.org
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2/9/17
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It’s been more than a decade since Yossi Beilin retired from Israeli politics, yet he continues to use his stature as a former government official to sometimes take positions that blacken …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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9/23/20
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One of the major issues in the debate over the Iran deal revolves around the question of what will happen if international inspectors want to visit a particular nuclear site, and the Iranians say …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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7/23/15
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Professors at a number of American universities have found a new cause: demanding the release of a terrorist who murdered two college students.
This disturbing story begins on Feb. 21, 1969. That …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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11/9/16
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