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But what I was actually feeling then, and for the first time at age 26, was a sense of the broad sweep of Jewish history and my oneness with it. Like any peak experience, once over, life goes back to normal. But you are never quite the same again. You re- main more -intimately and lovingly connected to the Jewish people. Finally, there is one other connection—parent as Jew— that is unique to this genera- tion. After the Holocaust, each Jewish child is not only a statement of new life, but a symbol of the life-affirming forces within us in the face of unspeakable degradation and death. Clearly the logical thing for the Jewish people to have done after encountering such horror would have been to fold up their tents and quietly fade back into his- tory—and certainly not to have Jewish children. But life and logic, to our great for- tune, are not always con- sonant. No Jewish child is con- ceived to "make up" for the Holocaust. That would be crude to state and burden- some for both parent and child to carry. Nevertheless, whether a conscious factor or not, the Holocaust has in- creased the urgency to create, —1 • Ram also offers four free hours of air time to any Ram customer who sends us a friend that we sell a phone to and place on Rams service. expand and treasure Jewish life. To be a Jewish parent after the Holocaust is to make a large series of claims about Jewish identity, hope, covenant, faith and commun- ity. Without uttering a single word. Children and Career Children can delay, diminish, demolish career, or have no impact whatsoever. It largely depends on what one wants. Particularly for women in these times, there are many choices. But the matter is not so simple .. . I consider myself a "trans- ition woman." By that I mean a woman whose ideas about self were shaped long before the women's move- ment refashioned our self- perceptions. But transition also means being caught be- tween two value systems, one that defined women largely in homemaking and mothering roles, the other—in terms of career. Those particular facts—of timing and of cultural dissonance—explain in part the longstanding am- bivalences I have felt on this issue, a string of conflicts, tensions, and bipolar pulls that men never had, and that women of the new generation have hardly at all. Proof of my ambivalences? In 30 seconds flat I can be persuaded that careers and motherhood do/do not con- flict. Proof two?—the knot in the pit of my stomach. I feel it much less now, but I remember it well. Sitting in the office at 4:15, knowing that the school bus is just pulling up to the corner and not I, but the housekeeper, is there to meet them; or sitting in the park with five adorable children, yet somehow feeling that life (read: professional) is passing me by. Today I no longer sit in the park or meet the school bus, but the tensions are not altogether gone: three hours for writing, or three hours for accompanying a 17-year-old on a first visit to the der- matologist for a few pimples that I know will go away on their own, but about which I could not, in kindness, con- vince a distressed teenager. (The teenager goes alone; I stay, but don't write a line.) Or an afternoon to prepare properly for a lecture; or the same afternoon to shop— "Please, not the last minute, Ema"—for a graduation dress. (I go.) Do fathers feel as if they are missing some- thing when their children in- vite them along, but father is too busy? And yet, would I want it to be any different? I think not, for surely I could have had it another way. Clearly, then, I desired the new options for women, but was unwilling to relinquish the old. 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