November 1, 2024
“What holiday is coming up next?” This can be a dangerous question in Progressive Jewish spaces. Because inevitably, depending on the season, a kid will raise their hand and say […]
October 24, 2024
To most of the world, the date is the October 7. To me it will always be Simchat Torah. The memory of the juxtaposition of the joyful singing and dancing […]
October 9, 2024
The thing about honey is, it isn’t simple like sugar. Cultivating sugar cane requires a great deal of effort, tending to the fields in blazing heat, processing and extracting the […]
October 7, 2024
A visitor (of which there are very few these days) might comment on how relatively normal life looks in Israel, even after a year of war. The beaches are full […]
September 11, 2024
By the second week of September, most college students have started to get settled into their dorms, classes, and new routines. It is an exciting, discombobulating experience, especially for Freshmen […]
August 24, 2024
Are you as exhausted from talking about politics as I am? Well, that isn’t exactly right. Let me rephrase: are you as exhausted from talking about these campaigns as I […]
August 22, 2024
For Gayle Schindler, opening up her table during holidays isn’t just for the guests but also for her. “It’s not only the guests that ‘need’ a match,” she said. “Hosts […]
August 12, 2024
When I look around at what’s going on in our world, I feel like I am living in Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities. At any given moment, […]
August 2, 2024
If someone tried to pitch the idea for the public library in America today, it would get laughed out of the House. Copyright lawyers alone would have a conniption at […]
July 9, 2024
Two years ago, our congregation centered our family education curriculum around Pixar movies. Using the cartoons that so many of the kids are familiar with, we were able to set […]