Lessons Learned from an Israeli Hostage
Choose life. Be resilient. Express gratitude. Eli Sharabi, an Israeli hostage, tells my congregation, “Be grateful. If you’re lucky...
Celebrate the beauty and meaning of this important holiday.
Passover and Spring are soon approaching…a festive and fresh time to prepare and try new arts...
The Passover seder is a meaningful, beautiful ancient(ish) Jewish ritual. From the retelling of the story of Exodus and the eating of symbolic foods...
The bat mitzvah ceremony is of relatively recent vintage, with the first American observance in 1922.
In many segments of the Jewish community, girls at...
A talmudic requirement.
In Jewish law, parents are required to meet the material and educational needs of their children. Along with this, one of the...
An affectionate Yiddish term for an energetic child.
The Yiddish expression vilde chaya (pronounced roughly VIL-duh KHAH-yeh) literally means wild animal, but it is not...
