Learning How to Make a Difference in Our World Many of us want to help repair what is broken in our world. Getting started, though,…
The Worldwide Chavurah
How a Book of Holocaust Photography Helped Me See What Cannot Be Seen Beyond the Shadows is Glickman Lauder’s stance against injustice. Perhaps her work…
The Struggle to Build a Loving, Accepting, and Ethical Israel A classmate recently snapped a photo of a billboard promoting Israel’s right-wing Yachad party that…
What Jewish Lessons Can We Learn from Michelle Obama’s Book? Here are a few takeaways from Mrs. Obama’s book that coincide with Jewish values. 3/06/2019…
My Chance Encounter with a Woman Who Later Made Jewish History Recently, as I’ve done for 32 years, I stopped to think about Marilyn Klinghoffer.…
What Does it Mean to “Code Switch” in Jewish Spaces? Whenever I enter Jewish spaces, whether it’s my first time or my fiftieth, I make…
On Purim, Let’s Get Vulnerable – Whether or Not We Get Drunk As we prepare to celebrate Purim, a festival of merriment and joy, many…
Drunk on Purim: What are We Teaching Our Kids? Purim festivities don’t square with what I know about the harmful side of alcohol: It destroys…
Why Shtisel Should be Your Next Binge-Watch I escaped a winter blast outside to watch a few episodes of the Israeli television series, Shtisel, now…
Everybody’s Neighbor: What a Trip to Guatemala Taught Me It’s time we stop treating refugees like criminals and come to love our neighbors – in…
Why I’ll Be Cycling in Israel This Spring As a teen in 1966, I was diagnosed with Osgood-Schlatter (O-S) disease, a ligament inflammation characterized by…
My ADHD Doesn’t Define Me – but It Does Drive Me Jewish wisdom says every human being is deserving of dignity and respect – and that…
What Does It Mean to Be “Blessed?” If you saw me in my nice suit driving my nice car on the way to my nice…
“Make a Change”: A Jewish Teen Leader’s Challenge “Connection doesn’t have to be this huge thing. It can be small things, too, that make just…
My Jewish Manic Episode Mania can be challenging. Normally, it’s fairly easy to act properly and lawfully. But when much of your brain is malfunctioning,…
It’s Time for a New Deal Between Humanity and Earth In modern times, we understand the Jewish concept as shmita as an opportunity to rededicate ourselves to being…
It’s Time to Improve Holocaust Education and Better Combat Anti-Semitism We are hopeful that the Never Again Education Act will be enacted in this congressional…
Oscar-Nominated Short Film Remembers 1939’s Massive Nazi Rally in NYC The Oscar-nominated short film A Night at the Garden is a documentary short about a massive pro-Nazi…
A Jewish Response to Political Scandal As we witness public figures dismantled by the revelation of ugly episodes from their pasts, we parents must distill…
Netanyahu from the Perspective of Others Oslo Diaries, a valuable perspective on a missed opportunity for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, reminds us there…