I had been thinking about my eldest daughter’s bat mitzvah for a long time. We belong to a Modern Orthodox ...

In order to help him feel more comfortable at bar/bat mitzvah parties, Myq Kaplan's mom signed him up for dance classes.

While the model is generally that students learn from teachers, yesterday I was reminded that teachers learn from students as ...

We live in a provincial community in the UK and like in many provincial communities, attitudes towards women’s involvement in ...

Last week I was following the dialogue and reflections of two of my Rabbis Without Borders colleagues on the topic ...

Late this past fall, I received a special invitation in my inbox. Surrounded by bright pink, blue and yellow polka dots, ...

The other day I had a discussion with a group of girls about their ideal bat mitzvah (the celebration that ...

A few years ago my family was living in Israel and attending a synagogue near our home. One Shabbat, our ...

The Talmud records Rabbi Chanina as stating, “I have learned much from my teachers, more from my colleagues, and the ...

My daughter Ktoret Ashira was born on Yom Kippur in Jerusalem in 2001. Two and a half years ago we ...