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 […]
July 1, 2024
On Saturday, June 22, on the morning of Cincinnati’s Pride parade, Jewish members of the LGBTQA+ community and their allies gathered at the historic Plum Street Temple for a special […]
June 28, 2024
The word “intersectional” was first used in 1989 by scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw to explore the point where racial and feminist ideologies converged within a single individual. Crenshaw appreciated what […]
June 21, 2024
Lainey Richler is happiest on a Sunday morning. Israeli techno bumps in the background, and the cry of “Runner!” from the kitchen promises that something delicious will soon arrive at […]
June 14, 2024
This week, we are celebrating Shavuot, the holiday where we commemorate the incredible gift of the Torah. We eat dairy foods (meant to acknowledge the land flowing with “milk and […]