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2 days ago | kveller.com | Lior Zaltzman

Edan Alexander spent 584 days in Gaza. He celebrated two birthdays under Hamas captivity. And today, the Israeli-American lone soldier is finally back in the country he loved so much he left his parents and two young siblings behind to immigrate there. Alexander, part of the 51st Battalion of the Golani Brigade, came to Israel as part of Garin Tzabar. He spent his time between his adoptive kibbutz, Kibbutz Hatzor, and his grandparents’ home in Tel Aviv.

5 days ago | kveller.com | Lior Zaltzman

Jewish actor Liev Schreiber is bringing his daughter Kai, 16, to a benefit for the Ali Forney Center, which provides housing and support for houseless LGBTQ youth. Ahead of the annual gala, A Place at the Table, which takes place today, Friday, May 9, in New York City, the “Ray Donovan” and “A Small Light” actor spoke about raising and embracing a trans child. He shared with Variety’s Marc Malkin, the co-chair of the gala, that Kai never came out to her parents as trans.

5 days ago | kveller.com | Daci Platt

Every time I struggle to shove my comforter into its duvet cover, I think about how I ended up being part of a duvet household as opposed to a flat-sheet household. The reason is simple: When my husband was growing up, his parents told him, “Jews don’t use top sheets.”Now, of course, he realizes this is not true, but the loyalty to a duvet cover has stuck. As a parent, I can imagine a million scenarios where I could use this line.

6 days ago | kveller.com | Lior Zaltzman

Music is, for most, a vital part of being a mother. It is in the playlists we make for ourselves for birth, in the lullabies we sing to our children (for some of us while they’re still growing in our wombs), in those early years a way to pass language and emotion, in the later years a connective tissue — those songs you love and learn to love through your kids are something you bond over forever.

1 week ago | kveller.com | Lior Zaltzman

In case you didn’t know, Paul Rudd used to be a bar and bat mitzvah DJ when he was in acting school. He started his DJ and MC career at a 50s-themed bar in Kansas City called Studebakers and when he started acting school in California, he used his DJ-ing and party-rousing skills to get hired by a company that sent out DJs and MCs to parties in Los Angeles.