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Like me, my friend Lee is raising Jewish children in a blended-faith household. And when she was asked by her two sons what she wanted for Christmas last December, she said “world peace.” (Cute. Don’t you love it when moms are cagey like that? My own mother always used to ask for “a kind word.”)…

On a similar subject, I felt awful all weekend for making fun of Howard Stern’s childhood of silence and deprivation last week. (He has said that his dad never listened to him.) And of course, if you consider Stern from the standpoint of his suffering, you can find his hidden Buddha, as well as your…

You know, I am having a hard time seeing shock jock Howard Stern as any kind of American hero. There he is, with his long dark tresses and sunglasses, putting his fist up in the air like a militant Black Panther, advancing the cause of paid Sirius Satellite Radio. But is that something to admire…

I have sent a white balloon filled with grateful happiness into the sky, along with a pledge to cultivate an even richer relationship with my 91-year-old father, who this week learned that a growth in his throat is a benign cyst, not cancerous. What do you do when you get great news? Tell me.
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