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Ken Gordonis the Senior Social Media Manager and Content Strategist atPEJE.He is also a Co-Founder ofJEDLAB.

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Superman Sam & The Power of Social Media

Ken Gordon

A child has died.A sweet,brave,smiling,bald 8-year-old boy named Samuel Sommer died from acute myeloid lukemia on December 14th.This is such bad news,I can barely type it out without getting… furious.There is no calm way to understand this.An absolutely terrible thing.And yet children die all the time.According to the World Health Organization,whose website I just clicked over to,millions of children die every year.But the millions of other poor dead children don't move me the way Sam's death does.…>> Read More

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Why Are We Never Called "Working Dads"?

Ken Gordon

Gentlewomen of the jury: I used to spend time with my kids.Honestly.Lots of time.Backyard-soccer-and-creating-family-newspapers-and-weird-board-games kind of time.Don't do that so much… anymore.Nowadays,when we do fun stuff,like this Gordon Family Pie Fight,it has to be scheduled after office hours or on the weekend.Y'see,for the last decade or so,I had been a freelance writer and editor,working most of the time at home.Then,in January 2011,I got a full-time…>> Read More

Dads

Seize the Day School

Ken Gordon

A few years ago,my then-boss--ayarmulked über-Jew named Yossi Abramowitz--asked if I planned to send my kids to day school.I don't remember my response,but I can tell you what I thought:… "Dude,are you kidding?" I was a secular public-school kid,my wife was a secular public-school kid,and my children,when they were old enough,would follow pedagogical suit.We didn't pay those insanely super-high Newton,Mass.taxes for nothing.Well,in the winter of 2009,my 6-year-old little daughter Shoshi was in her second…>> Read More

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