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.

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

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

Adam and Eve - and especially Eve - are victims of the greatest character assassination the world has ever known. Eve is not secondary. Eve, if anything, is the great initiator in the story. She's the first independent woman. For me, rediscovering that Eve was the greatest bad**s women of all time was a revelation.

Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.

Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.