Partner Blogs
Breast Cancer and Jews: Know Your Risk!
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Since a peer-led health initiative is one of the programs I help coordinate, I ...
May All Of Our Hearts Be Moved to Action
A week ago, a woman named Deb took her life in New Jersey. I learned about her death in an ...
October Blues
It’s only been a month and a half since my son Jonah returned from sleep-away camp and I’m already feeling ...
Have a Little Faith
A lot has been made of the new Pew Study on the Jewish population. I am enjoying reading the various ...
A New Spiritual Comfort Zone: Reflecting on the Pew Study
As Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz says, statistics in the Pew Research Center’s survey of American Jewish attitudes and beliefs are wide ...
Camp and the “Real World”
Campers and staff often state at the end of a camp session or summer that they wish camp could last ...
On Writing a Fictionalized Account of Baruch Spinoza’s Family
I’ve often been asked both by journalists and by my readers why my novel The Elixir of Immortality tells the ...
Thoughts on the #Shutdown: “For Our Nation And Its Rulers”…
I was listening to National Public Radio on the way into work this morning, hearing more and more details of ...
The Hobby Lobby Hanukkah Hubbub
This week, my Facebook news-feed is filled with outrage about the fact that Hobby Lobby won’t carry Hanukkah decorations. Many ...
A Jewish Family Tree: The Genesis of The Elixir of Immortality
I left Stockholm in the fall of 1998 and moved to Oslo, for I had discovered the neighboring land’s greatest ...
The Pew Study: What the stats can and can’t teach us
It’s probably one of the first things that I learned from my time as a social science researcher – the ...
It Looks the Same
The Davis Academy 8th Grade Gibush Retreat (A Summer at URJ Camp Coleman)It looks the same. (It looks different.)Two quick ...
So Now What?
As a synagogue rabbi, I feel as if we have been running a religious marathon for the past month. since. ...
From Utica, NY to Utica, MS: How A Rabbi Spent His Summer Vacation
Today’s guest post comes from Rabbi Hank Bamberger of Utica, New York, who spent some time traveling in the South ...
Never Alone, Never Lonely
Books have always fascinated me, even from the very earliest days of my childhood. As the child of Jewish intellectuals ...