April 2014

In My Characters’ Shoes

One September afternoon I took the train from Berlin to Warsaw, as my characters had done. I wanted to see ...

The Beginnings of A Bintel Brief

In January 1906, a woman wrote a letter to a Yiddish daily newspaper called the  Forward , to complain that her watch ...

Being a Mitzvah Representative

How can a few classes of kids in Atlanta brighten an entire hospital?The Davis Academy’s 4th grade team, interested in ...

Leading Seder for the First Time

This was my first Pesach away from home. I am a first-year college student and although I love my college and ...

Ten Plagues of the 21st Century

“It’s not that I have an issue with her having sex, per se,  it’s just that it should mean something.  ...

Why Me? Why Not Me?

“Why are you doing this?”I hear this question frequently when people learn that I write to help parents understand how ...

Meet Another Moses

Do you know Mr. Moses? Mr. Bob Moses?I’ve always associated Bob Moses’s name with civil rights and, specifically, his well-known ...

Freedom from Matzah

In its simplest form, Passover is a holiday that commemorates the Israelites’ journey from slavery to freedom. During the seder ...

The Company & Conversation of Passover

I’ve always said that Passover felt like the most relevant Jewish holiday to me. As a teenager I insisted on ...

Should We Really Label Our Children? Yes…Sometimes.

I’ve always been troubled by the “four children” in the Haggadah.Passover is supposed to teach our children about how we ...