2013

Yitzhak Rabin: Captain, O My Captain!

The yahrzeit for slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, passed with scant notice here a few days ago on the 12th of  ...

Death and Rebirth: A Holocaust Complex

If I lived alone on Planet Laura, I would stop writing about the Pew survey, in protest against unproductive, polarized ...

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A Blessing for a Surrogate Mother

“Do you know of a prayer for a surrogate?” The question came over Facebook Chat a few nights ago, sent ...

Make Art, Jews!

The recent Pew survey on Jewish America released earlier this month seems to confirm what many already believe: those of us outside ...

A Moment of Kindness

Whenever I tell anyone that mother was in a German labor camp during World War II, they assume she was ...

Southern Jewish Snapshot: Birmingham, AL

Students at Temple Beth-El in Birmingham, Alabama, listen in rapt attention to The Rabbi and the 29 Witches . We love everything ...

#timeismeaningless

A camp professional in my adult life, I have always been a camper at heart. I have the deepest, most ...

Encountering the Hasidic Enclave

Jews of Today could never have begun as a project had I not encountered the phenomenon of the Hasidic enclave. As ...

Eight Ways to Lose Weight on Hanukkah

So everybody knows that Hanukkah is all about miracles, right? I think when it comes to miracles we’re each entitled to our ...

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