By Laura Seymour Dear Families, Judaism is filled with books, legends, stories, quotes and even bubbemeysas. Everything is to teach a lesson about life with a Jewish flavor. Sometimes we…

By Laura Seymour Dear Families, I love lists and I love books, so when I got the book “100 Essential Books for Jewish Readers” I was thrilled. The book was…

By Laura Seymour Dear Families, I’ll admit to not being much of a sports fan, although I do watch the Cowboys (after years of being in Dallas). I just couldn’t…

Dear Families, Hopefully you are reading this over Thanksgiving, surrounded by family and friends. It is the perfect time to talk about family values. Today we are looking for the…

By Laura Seymour Dear Families, Hopefully you are reading this over Thanksgiving, surrounded by family and friends. It is the perfect time to talk about family values. Today we are…

Dear Families, The holiday of Thanksgiving is upon us and the messages of this day are many. The importance of being thankful and the value of expressing those thanks are…

Dear Parents and Children, The start of the school year is filled with so many wonderful beginnings. For a Jewish school, we add all the holidays that come one upon…

Dear Families, The biblioholic strikes again — I must recommend another book! Last year Seth Rogovoy published a book titled “Bob Dylan — Prophet, Mystic, Poet.” It is a biography…

Dear Families, So often I hear from parents that they belong to a synagogue, go to services or have Shabbat dinner for the kids. It is great when parents are…

By Laura Seymour Dear Families, The Torah is filled with stories about angels although many people are surprised. The Hebrew word for angel is “malach,” which is usually translated as…