Love in a Lunch Box: Tips For a New Passover Tradition
This article originally ran in the St. Louis Jewish Light Though each of my children has gone through brief phases of packing her own lunch or buying at school, I […]
April 18, 2022
April 15, 2022
Moving from Constriction: A Passover 2022 Message
This year, the Passover journey from Egypt and slavery to freedom and human dignity feels particularly poignant. The Hebrew word for Egypt, mitzrayim, also connotes “the narrow place,” a place […]
April 15, 2022
On Pesach, She
On Pesach, she would host 30 guests. Her siblings, children, friends without family nearby. The dining room table was extended to its maximum length, extra card tables snaking into the […]
April 14, 2022
My First Passover
Passover was on March 30 the first year I ever celebrated it. I remember it was a stormy spring in Los Angeles. Rainwater roared through the city aqueducts. I had […]
April 13, 2022
The Holiday Of Oppression Is Upon Us
For those of us making seders, the list-making has been going on for quite a while now. For those of us who change dishes and pots and every damn thing […]
April 13, 2022
For High Schoolers, Holocaust Museum Connects History To Today
WASHINGTON — Being in the crowded, confined space of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was uncomfortable for Kevin Smokyday. It wasn’t because of the photos and videos that he saw […]
April 8, 2022
Jenna Zark’s New Book ‘Crooked Lines’ Began Life at TC Jewfolk
TC Jewfolk is pleased to share some news about former columnist (now guest columnist) Jenna Zark. Jenna was one of the earliest writers at TC Jewfolk, sharing stories about Jewish […]
March 25, 2022
My Jewish Boys Go To Catholic School & I Get Asked About It All The Time
The story starts long ago. When I was growing up, my father was Jewish and my mother was Catholic. They attended services at a local synagogue before I was born […]
March 14, 2022
Who Did The Better ‘Encanto’ Themed Purim Parody?
With Purim this week it’s officially “Purim Parody Season,” and this year there are at least three (that we found) that use one of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s earworms from Disney’s Encanto. […]
March 1, 2022
New App Aims To Fix ‘Broken’ Online Dating
Even in the modern world of online dating and swiping left and right, Mendota Heights-born Miriam Younger had been a successful matchmaker, but she learned there was a group of […]