In the Face of Anti-Semitism, We Need More Than Luck As the “Cabaret” cast assembled for rehearsal, we understood that now, more than ever, our…
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“Sing Hallelujah”: A Poem for Thanksgiving Poet Stacey Zisook Robinson reflects on Judaism’s call to us to both partner with God to repair what is…
How a Tray of Blintzes Brought Our Community Together My Grandma Ruby, may she rest in peace, knew that comfort food, especially blintzes, could sweeten…
How #GivingTuesday Helps Us Fulfill a Jewish Obligation #GivingTuesday provides us with an opportunity to demonstrate one of the most fundamental teachings of Jewish tradition:…
How to Practice Gratitude This Thanksgiving…and Year-Round To be truly grateful, we have to learn to get out of our own way. This Thanksgiving, before…
What Can We Learn from a Chasidic Melody? Nigunim, wordless melodies, can take numerous forms: some are fast and energetic, others are ponderous and slow,…
How Can We Be Thankful in a Season of Tragedy? I hope that by taking time to appreciate what we have, I can energize myself to…
18 Recipes for a Tasty Thanksgiving… with a Jewish Culinary Twist! There are lots of ways to infuse your celebration with Jewish meaning – and recipes from…
3 Ways to Help Those Affected by the California Wildfires Want to help? Here are the best ways to support affected communities. 11/15/2018 Kate Kaput…
Meet the Reform Rabbinical Group’s First Female Leader The Reform movement’s rabbinical wing has appointed Rabbi Hara Person as its first female chief executive. 11/15/2018…
Wonder of Wonders: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s (People’s Stage) Yiddish version of Fiddler on the Roof is now…
Supporting and Celebrating the Women in Our Lives Often, women are set in opposition to one another, believing that to succeed we have to be…
This Rabbi Saved 4 Torah Scrolls from Being Destroyed in the California Wildfires “There’s a hill right across the street from our temple — it…
Checkout-Line Blessings at the Israeli Supermarket Although Israel is filled with many religious people, most supermarket visits don’t come with a side of checkout-line-blessings like…
Cracking the Code: What Torah Trope Are You? Chants used to read Torah may be an unusual metaphor to assess one’s inner nature, but the…
What Black Panther Can Teach Us about Our Place in the World From both the wise words of Jewish sages and Marvel superheroes: May we…
Remembering Kristallnacht After Pittsburgh Today Jews will commemorate the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass), the first large-scale attack on German Jews…
Today’s the Day: Wake Up and Vote! Today is the day we act by voting – taking the step that will help move us from…
How and Why I Flourished During a Year in Israel When I signed up, I had no idea about Mechina, a gap-year program in Israel.…
Facing the Music: How I Regained My Faith after a Life-Changing Injury On the night of January 21, 2005, a drunk driver paralyzed me. I…