August 2014
If We Remove Our Masks, We Have a Chance to Save the World
These past weeks have brought a recipe of complication and hardship which have sent us reeling in disbelief. From Ebola, ...
An Open Letter to My Bais Yaakov Education
To My Bais Yaakov Education,I thought I knew what I was getting into when I made the jump from a ...
Emerging from Hiding
There’s a reason you haven’t seen me online much this summer. I went underground to avoid the graphic images of ...
Cross-Cultural Parenting: Materialism vs Relationship
My daughter is wise beyond her years. She teaches me. Recently a family with older children handed down to us ...
Hot ShoTz and Tefillahpalooza, Part Deux
Back in October, we tried something new at the day school half of my job: Tefillahpalooza. You can read the ...
A Different Kind of Jewish “Movement”
“Do you live in the same place where you were raised?” The ISJL’s founder, Macy B. Hart, likes to ask ...
Silencing Abominable Language: Parashat Re’eh
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
Judging Ourselves – Not Judging Others
It’s been a week since Robin Williams’ death. My Facebook newsfeed continues to be filled with beautiful tributes to and ...
The Other ‘F’ Word
Feminism has become a dirty word.In discussions with students, this is what I hear: “Sure, I think women should get ...
My First Time at Jewish Summer Camp
I have very fond memories of my first time at Jewish summer camp. It seems like it was only yesterday.Actually, ...