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A Whole Lot of Love

What if God took note of every mistake you made and considered it a glorious seed for a profoundly better future? ...

Lily Brett on Interviewing Rock Stars and Not Becoming a Lawyer

I spent five or six years of my youth interviewing rock stars. I interviewed them backstage, after concerts. I interviewed ...

Get Your Menurkey Ready

I usually write posts about topics like challenges facing our community, and my work in engagement and social justice. But ...

Yitzhak Rabin: Captain, O My Captain!

The yahrzeit for slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, passed with scant notice here a few days ago on the 12th of  ...

Death and Rebirth: A Holocaust Complex

If I lived alone on Planet Laura, I would stop writing about the Pew survey, in protest against unproductive, polarized ...

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A Blessing for a Surrogate Mother

“Do you know of a prayer for a surrogate?” The question came over Facebook Chat a few nights ago, sent ...

Make Art, Jews!

The recent Pew survey on Jewish America released earlier this month seems to confirm what many already believe: those of us outside ...

A Moment of Kindness

Whenever I tell anyone that mother was in a German labor camp during World War II, they assume she was ...

Southern Jewish Snapshot: Birmingham, AL

Students at Temple Beth-El in Birmingham, Alabama, listen in rapt attention to The Rabbi and the 29 Witches . We love everything ...

#timeismeaningless

A camp professional in my adult life, I have always been a camper at heart. I have the deepest, most ...

Encountering the Hasidic Enclave

Jews of Today could never have begun as a project had I not encountered the phenomenon of the Hasidic enclave. As ...

Eight Ways to Lose Weight on Hanukkah

So everybody knows that Hanukkah is all about miracles, right? I think when it comes to miracles we’re each entitled to our ...

Our Daughters’ Tallitot

In the fortunate cases it is the grandparents, often it is the parents, and sometimes even a sibling who stands ...

Teaching Our Children How to Swim

In addition to beginning to plan for the upcoming 2014 camping season, Gilad and I find ourselves also busy preparing ...

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