January 23, 2026
Recipes: Carrot Pineapple Salad, Fennel Salad with Dates & Blue Cheese, Potato Tomato Salad with Pesto, Cranberry Jalapeño Dip, Butternut Squash Soup, Savory Vegetable Tart, Fruit Crisp Tu B’Shvat begins […]
January 22, 2026
Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, I frequent a store where most of the clientele […]
January 14, 2026
My employer has given me a cell phone for work. When I first started using it, I received a lot of spam text messages. Ironically, many of them were very […]
January 12, 2026
I am a 76-years-old, and never did I imagine that I would be scared one day because I am Jewish. I grew up in Haifa, Israel. Throughout my childhood, I […]
January 8, 2026
When I told my mother that I went to see the new David movie, her first question was, “Was it super Christian?” It wasn’t an unreasonable question. As I sat […]
January 1, 2026
Growing up, I never thought someone like me would go to the mikvah. I grew up on the Jersey shore, an area with a mix of Jews of all levels […]
December 31, 2025
Toward the end of this year, I found myself thinking less about how much we do and more about what we choose to make time for. Time, it turns out, […]
December 23, 2025
You spent the fall months applying, or supporting someone who was applying, to various colleges. Maybe you’ve narrowed it down to three schools, maybe you still have a top ten, […]
December 17, 2025
Lately, I have been thinking about how fast life feels. Probably because most of our nights are spent racing between cheer, soccer, play rehearsals, spontaneous singing performances, and whatever else […]
December 12, 2025
Recipes: Olive Oil Cake & Olive Tapenade When we think about Hanukkah, we think about latkes. And when we think about latkes, we think about potatoes. But we SHOULD be […]