2013

Summer Lovin’ – Tamara & Neal

Camp and summer romances go hand in hand, and once in a while those early relationships actually go the distance.  ...

A Modest Case For Civil Marriage Equality

Political discourse finds expression everywhere it can. People discuss their convictions over dinner, at water coolers in the office, in ...

What is the Story?

The Mothers is the first book I’ve written that does not primarily consist of Jewish characters. It’s a little weird that ...

Fear, Perception, and Imagination: Grasshoppers in Whose Eyes?

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

Privilege & Oppression

We recently finished celebrating Passover, a holiday where “oppression” is an ongoing theme (and freedom, of course, is our cause ...

You’re A Camp Director?

Rabbi Isaac Saposnik is the director of Camp JRF in South Sterling, PA.When I tell people that I’m a camp ...

Lost Stories

The Mothers  is my third novel but it’s the first novel I’ve written that tracks so closely with my own ...

I Can See North Korea From My Backyard

 I am writing this blog from my bunker in Los Angeles, so if it doesn’t make perfect sense when you ...

April Director’s Corner

Stefan Teodosic is the Executive Director of B’nai B’rith Beber Camp and the Perlman Conference Center in Mukwonago, Wisconsin.There are ...

Yom HaShoah: Oral Histories Help Us “Never Forget”

Today is Yom HaShoah, and while the atrocities committed by the Nazis and their collaborators may seem very distant from ...

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