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The story of Esther teaches us many things, amongst them, that timing is everything.This year, the women’s Megillat Esther reading ...

Carnival, Mardi Gras, Carnaval.  These words convey exhuberance, dancing, masks, and overflowing joy (and often excess). From Rio to New ...

How is this book different from all your other books?The most obvious answer: in Visible City, there are no description of ...

The call came the other day from our son Jonah’s sleep-away summer camp. Registration was almost completed and we hadn’t ...

Jackson, Mississippi has one of the largest St. Patrick’s Day parades in the country. This Saturday, 70,000(!) people will line ...

Teachers, curricula, grades, rulers, pencils, erasers, chalk, markers, handouts, hands up, heads up, mouths shut, black boards, white boards, smart ...

Before we crash headlong into the various celebratory, lighthearted posts about Purim, I want to draw your attention to something: ...

I started writing  Visible City  in the weeks after moving from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to the suburbs ...

This past Saturday, Keshet Staff Member Joanna Ware joined Temple Hillel B’nai Torah to deliver a d’var Torah on gender ...

This year on Purim, several minyanim in the U.S. and in Israel will be reading the Megillah with a twist. ...

Purim’s less than a week away, so we’re busy making rainbow hamantaschen and rereading  The Purim Superhero , by Elisabeth ...

Several years ago, I started a new job in a new city and wanted to check out a local synagogue. ...

A few weeks ago a recipe started making rounds on the Internet. Not just any recipe, but a recipe for ...

The Jewish Funders Network has named the Foundation for Jewish Camp as the inaugural recipient of the Shapiro Prize for ...

For me, writing fiction always begins with curiosity about other people: what are they really thinking but not saying? What ...