Celebrate

Between Death and Life

Years ago, I faced a summer’s end with a series of five deaths in the tiny congregation I served as ...

Everybody knows about dipping apples in honey to celebrate Rosh Hashanah for a “sweet” year. But in the Syrian tradition, we have ...

Most moderns live life on the run. You probably don’t need any reminder, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports ...

“Where there is faith, there are fewer beliefs. You use beliefs to shore up opinions, rather than a relationship with ...

My daughter Mia often watches Iron Chef, a cooking show on TV in which they designate a secret ingredient that ...

Often reality is stranger than fiction; The vote for one of the first major strike in American history was taken ...

Apparently yesterday was “National Dog Day.”I had not heard of National Dog Day before, but it was created 10 years ...

Each shofar has a unique undulating shape and trumpeting sound. The sound may be low and haunting or bold and ...

These past weeks have brought a recipe of complication and hardship which have sent us reeling in disbelief. From Ebola, ...

The quintessential image of home, holiness, and Jewish motherhood is that of a woman blessing the Shabbat candles, performing a ...

As I walked in the door from a long day at work, I started receiving calls and emails from friends ...

Sarah is barren, Rachel is barren, Rivka is barren. As a single man, I too am barren, unable to conceive ...