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If you’re getting ready for Hanukkah — lighting candles? doing seasonal meditation? throwing a party? — and you need the ...

As a glutton for torture (and as a recent parent, which is kind of the same thing), I’ve been taking ...

It was dry inside the Avalon Theatre in Washington, D.C.’s Chevy Chase neighborhood. The audience for the 22nd Washington Jewish Film ...

Hanukkah (the first candle is lit on the evening of Dec. 20, 2011) is the Jewish holiday which celebrates miracles. ...

Here’s the thing about being both an author and a blogger: It makes you impatient. When I write a rant ...

Last week, I was having a conversation about the future of Judaism at an informal gathering of Jewish professionals, Jews ...

As I walked through the streets of New York City one chilly morning last April, a young woman with a ...

One of my main goals in writing The Inquisitor’s Apprentice was to bring the Lower East Side to life for ...

The Problem of HomelessnessWhen we think of societal problems, we often think in the abstract. Take the question of “homelessness.” ...

On Monday, Chris Moriarty wrote about why she wrote The Inquisitor’s Apprentice. She will be blogging here all week for ...

At Congregation B’nai Israel, Bridgeport, CT, I’m blessed with a class of almost 30 eighth graders and we meet weekly ...

It’s four days after Thanksgiving and I am feeling guilty. My family enjoyed a weekend of delicious leftovers from our ...

When I try to explain why I wrote The Inquisitor’s Apprentice — and why it’s emphatically not a Jewish Narnia ...

It seems to me that we do not do a lot of talking to each other anymore. There is lots ...

So there we were this past Saturday evening, some 500 people strong, many arm in arm, singing the la, la ...