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 ...
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 ...