Dear Families,We are certainly living in strange times! Although I have written this column before, the Jewish value that comes to mind for today is courage, in Hebrew “ometz lev.”…
Dear Families,At this time of the Jewish year, I have always written about Counting the Omer — this is the time we do it. Yet things are different today! We…
Dear Families, Today we have been challenged to find new ways of doing things — who ever heard of a zoom seder? We are all looking to a time when…
Dear Families,Many years ago I was at a JCCA conference and a rabbi spoke to us “camp directors.” His message was that we, and all of our fellow J workers…
Dear Families, So many are at home and either watching TV or reading blogs galore — hope you are connected to a few of the wonderful Jewish sources and have…
Dear Families, I struggled to find something to say amid this crisis that would add a Jewish thought and went through article after article to find something. My own words…
Dear Families, Purim is barely over and before we know it, Passover will be here and we will search our homes for chametz and get ready to search for the…
Dear Families, Most of us cannot imagine studying Talmud but it really is possible today (you can even find a study group online). The best tractate to study is Pirke…
Dear Families, Purim is just around the corner and as we get our baskets of goodies ready, we must read (and hear) the story again. If you only go to…
Dear Families, I don’t usually recommend a book until I have finished it, but I already spoke about Sarah Hurwitz’s book “Here All Along.” I found myself loving it more…