September 2013

From Utica, NY to Utica, MS: How A Rabbi Spent His Summer Vacation

Today’s guest post comes from Rabbi Hank Bamberger of Utica, New York, who spent some time traveling in the South ...

Never Alone, Never Lonely

Books have always fascinated me, even from the very earliest days of my childhood. As the child of Jewish intellectuals ...

Parashat Noach: Apres le Deluge: Moi

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as  parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

“How I Met Your Rabbi” – Or, “How I Met Your Mother/Father God”?

Today’s post is from Education Fellow Amanda Winer. “Kids, let me tell you the story of how I met your ...

Baruch Dayan Emet

Hoshana Rabbah is kind of a weird day – even for the Jewish calendar. It’s not really a holiday – ...

The Problem with Florida

Want some insights into a historian’s dilemma? It involves cultural identity. Geography. And NASCAR. (Well – sort of.)The Encyclopedia of ...

Old Enough

Why does it sometimes feel almost counter-cultural to pack your kids off to camp? Maybe because we’re living in a ...

The Balabusta Gene

Some folks are born with the balabusta gene and others are not. It’s that simple. If you didn’t happen to grow up ...

Simchat Torah: Circling Back

Rabbi Jane Litman first presented these words of Torah for Simchat Torah in 2006, as part of the Torah Queeries ...

Confessions of a Jewish Bride

I’ll confess right off that this is not my most embarrassing culinary moment, because I actually air the worst ones in my ...