Jamie Betesh Carter

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Tablet Portraits of Hope and Resilience 17 Apr 2023
"Invited to Life: Finding Hope After the Holocaust" by B.A. Van Sise is a book that shares the stories and portraits of 90 Holocaust survivors. Van Sise bega...
17 Apr 2023
Tablet Call Me by My Grandfather’s Name 14 Mar 2023
Esther Levy Chehebar, a Sephardic Jew from Brooklyn, wrote a children's book called "I Share My Name" to explain the tradition of naming children after livin...
14 Mar 2023
Tablet Reframing the Conversation Around Parenting 8 Dec 2022
Jessica Grose, a New York Times parenting opinion writer, has gained popularity for her straightforward and relatable approach to discussing the challenges o...
8 Dec 2022
Tablet A Mother-Daughter Collaboration, Decades in the Making 6 May 2022
76-year-old Annie Gottlieb and her 98-year-old mother, Jean, collaborated for five years to publish a family memoir titled "Braided Generations: The Living, ...
6 May 2022
Tablet Sharing Family Secrets 26 Apr 2022
Anna Salton Eisen grew up in a household where the Holocaust was a secret that her parents were unwilling to discuss. She discovered her father's paintings d...
26 Apr 2022
Tablet Taking Pride in a Name 21 Jan 2022
The author reflects on the importance of naming children after ancestors in the Jewish faith. She initially wanted to name her children after her grandparent...
21 Jan 2022
Tablet The Joys of Someone Else’s Holiday 23 Dec 2021
The author describes their experience of celebrating their non-Jewish friend's holiday, Christmas, and how it allowed them to appreciate and understand anoth...
23 Dec 2021
Tablet Bagels, Kibbeh, and Sambusak—Hold the Gluten 14 Dec 2021
This article discusses the challenges faced by individuals with celiac disease in maintaining their cultural and religious food traditions. The author shares...
14 Dec 2021
Tablet Holding on to His Hummus 9 Dec 2021
This personal essay explores the author's relationship with her father and his homemade hummus as he battles stage 3 lung cancer. The author discusses the ab...
9 Dec 2021
Tablet Making Aliyah—the Board Game 19 Nov 2021
Sallie Abelson created the board game Aliyah in the 1970s to provide an innovative and interactive way for Jewish children in Ames, Iowa, to learn about Juda...
19 Nov 2021