Monthly Archives: April 2012


Geek love, parenting and Judaism

Mayim Bialik proves you can do it all, if what you do is different To watch Mayim Bialik accept a tiara is to watch a wallflower blossom. As she segues from the words “transparently manipulative,” to the sing-song, “Ooooh, it’s a tee-ah-rah,” when she sees the gift, you cannot help but laugh. Her knees go weak, […]


Lola Kaufman

The hidden children

Remembering a childhood of fear and separation by Marla Cohen & Sara Gilbert It was 1990, and New City resident Lola Kaufman was reading an article in New York Magazine that caught her breath. Organizers of a conference were looking for “hidden children,” those youngest Holocaust survivors who had spent the war years sheltered and ultimately […]