The Still Small Voice
We have a Yom Kippur tradition in our family. Call it family custom, call it superstition, but we do not attend Yizkor service until we’ve lost someone close to us. […]
March 14, 2025
March 13, 2025
How To Politely Turn Down Purim Gifts
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, My synagogue is a place where people tend to […]
March 8, 2025
How To Help My New Son-In-Law Through Grief
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, Our new son-in-law’s father (who is Catholic) has been […]
March 8, 2025
Ask a Rabbi: Dealing with Family Who Have Differing Views on Israel
Rabbi, my child is a college student at Ohio State. In the past several months, they have become more and more anti-Zionist as the situation in Israel drags on. Our […]
March 5, 2025
Purim – It’s Not What it Seems
Like Tu b’Shvat, which I wrote about last month, Purim also suffers from the image of being a pediatric holiday. Purim is fun. We give and get gifts of food, […]
February 27, 2025
Ask the Rabbi: Business Partner Gone Wrong
Rabbi, I just found out my best friend and business partner has been stealing money from our company for years. I am devastated and angry and don’t know what to […]
February 20, 2025
Ask the Rabbi: Am I Jewish Now?
Question: I was raised in a Christian home but never had much of a connection with my faith. I recently participated in 23 and Me, and my results came back […]
February 14, 2025
Ask A Rabbi: How do I talk about conversion with my partner?
Question: I am in a relationship with someone who isn’t Jewish. They were raised Catholic but don’t have any connection to organized religion. My Jewish identity is very important to […]
February 12, 2025
A Shared Cultural Ethic is an Ideal that Jews have Only Barely Gotten to Taste
When my uncle was a teenager, he became enthralled by Japanese culture. Over the decades that followed, he became fluent in Japanese, practiced the Japanese art of Kendo, and married […]
February 6, 2025
Ask a Rabbi: Every question deserves an answer…but also brings more questions
The Jewish people are known as Am Yisrael, which translates to “the people who wrestle with God.” We take very seriously our obligation to strive to make sense of our […]