There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.

There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.