August 15, 2022
Jewish sleepaway camp provided many of today’s adults with their first Tisha B’Av experience. There they sat on the floor of the Beit Am (communal building), watched interpretive dance, listened to the camp […]
August 15, 2022
We dip in honey to force ourselves to pause and we find the symbolic honey in our own life.
August 15, 2022
Are you struggling to find a sense of balance and meaning this Rosh Hashanah? Do the Holy Days feel less holy in this time of pandemic distance and confusion? You […]
August 15, 2022
She was hiding in the countryside because she was Jewish. But she was an anti-Semite. A fascinating look at French author Irène Némirovsky.
August 15, 2022
If bagels, Hanukkah and movies on Christmas were enough for my childhood, then why isn’t it enough for my children?
August 15, 2022
On Passover, along with Yom Hashoah and Yom Hazikaron we tell our families and friends to never forget our tragic pasts.
August 15, 2022
Desperate to find a book club where she belongs, TC Jewfolk writer, Nina Badzin, discovers that the chosen people are not her first choice.
August 15, 2022
This was not my first Jewish holiday away from home. Studying abroad in London, my friends tossed crumpets in the Thames for Tashlich. Living in rural Thailand, my boyfriend and […]
August 15, 2022
The Jews stranded in Ethiopia have been promised authorization to make Aliyah for decades.
August 15, 2022
Nowadays, it seems like there’s an app for everything- ordering food, shopping for clothes, or even telling you what you missed when you go to the restroom during a movie. […]