October 2015

My three-year-old loves her preschool. Now in her third year there, she has friends she is close to, teachers she ...

The week is bracketed by two parades.  The first is on the holiday of Simchat Torah, when we complete the ...

“Where’s your family?” A friendly “old timer” asked me at Friday night services a couple of weeks ago. When you’re ...

I remember the exact moment when I realized I’d never be the Jewish James Bond.It was right after our son ...

That night, a video changed my life. It was just over six minutes long, yet its message touched me profoundly ...

Rarely have I been so deeply affected, so deeply wounded inside, so utterly shattered.

Hamilton, a new musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, has captivated my nerdy history-and-Broadway-musical-loving-heart in a big way. That’s not surprising — ...

I hate Jewish holidays.I got married soon after becoming Orthodox, and I was excited to celebrate the Jewish holidays fully ...

The High Holiday season just ended. A spiritual, emotional and communal journey through Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot culminated ...

There is a relationship in my life that has gnawed at my heartstrings for more than twenty years, and each ...