Change

Yom Kippur Is Important. The Day After Is Even More So.

We sat in synagogue most, if not all, of the day. We didn’t eat. We thought about the ways we missed ...

Just Saying No to The Container Store

I’ve learned my lesson. I’m just saying no to The Container Store.The Container Store is an amazing place. They stock ...

Towards A More Perfect Union

It’s Monday evening, July 25, and I’m watching the Democratic National Convention. Senator Cory Booker, a dynamic and powerful speaker ...

Is Your Suitcase Packed?

I love to travel. If I could I would be always either in the midst of traveling or preparing for ...

On Making A Difference, Together

“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain ...

A Daughter’s Response to “Mincha in the Midwest”

This past Simchat Torah, my mother began planning her synagogue’s first women’s mincha, afternoon service. She was inspired by the ...

Amazing and Improbable Transformations for the New Year

Change is an inevitable part of our lives. Most changes, however, happen to us from the outside: we age, we ...

Camp as a Place for Change

I still have not gotten situated to the long Shabbats of the summer. For sixteen summers, I was immersed in ...

Does The Jewish Community Need A Nelson Mandela Today?

World leaders today have assembled to mourn the death of Nelson Mandela. As tributes are paid to Mandela’s towering legacy ...

Kathryn Wiener, A Woman of Vision

“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” — Victor HugoThis ...