October 2015

Passover is the eight-day Jewish holiday in which we ask questions at the seder table. For one quirky Jewish guy ...

When I got married, there were a million things on my to-do list. There was one thing, one pretty important ...

For those of you who wear rings, this probably sounds familiar: you fiddle with your ring, a thousand times a ...

Today we celebrate the holiday of Simhat Torah. Literally meaning “rejoicing in Torah,” the holiday is a culmination both of ...

Simchat Torah: a day for reading — and connecting — the beginning and end of the Torah.The Torah begins with ...

Yogi Berra was the master of saying the wrong thing in the most right way. His death a couple of ...

I recall standing once in a communal sukkah teaching a group of children about Sukkot. It was a sunny day ...

Being a woman on Simchat Torah is hard for me, but not for the reasons you might think.Maybe I am ...

In elementary school, the Jewish holidays were never an issue — I went to a Jewish day school, so school ...

After the end of my two-year term as an ISJL Education Fellow, I moved back to Massachusetts to begin rabbinical ...