Celebrate

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

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 ...

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 ...

Sunday night (October 4, 2015) begins Shemini Atzeret, the last festival in the summer/fall Jewish holiday cycle. For many moderns, ...

Three females — a 63-year-old, a 41-year-old, and an 11-year-old — have much in common. In addition to their blond, ...

When you live in the Deep South — and especially when you have to travel a lot for work — ...

Back in biblical times, Israelites would come to the great Temple three times a year, in the fall, and at ...

As a rabbi who is blessed with the humbling privilege of leading her congregation, after the High Holy Days have ...