holidays
When The Big Game is on The Big Day
This special holiday post comes from guest blogger Rabbi Matt Rosenberg, Executive Director of Hillel at Texas A&M University. Thank ...
Tammuz: Remembering Our Spiritual Center
How Jewish is the Hebrew Calendar? When we use a Hebrew word to identify a period of time, we may ...
Memorial Day: May Their Memories Be a Blessing
On this Memorial Day, we recall all those who have given their lives defending our freedom.Throughout American history, Jews have ...
The Fruitful Bounty of Shavuot and Springtime
Shavuot is a holiday often easily overlooked- many of us may not even realize that it has already passed! Shavuot ...
Revealing Jewish Camp
It is interesting that as we are in the final countdown to Shavuot we start the reading the Book of Numbers. ...
Israel and Israelis
After months of anticipation, I arrived in a slightly damp and chilly Israel for the annual training of summer shlichim ...
Model Lessons
According to Jewish Law it’s the practice to refrain from getting married between Passover and Shavuot – until Lag B’Omer (Shulchan Aruch 493:1). ...
Modeling Respect on Lag B’Omer
According to Jewish Law it is the practice to refrain from getting married between Passover and Shavuot – until Lag B’Omer ...
Independence Thinking
Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow is the Director of Jewish Education at the Foundation for Jewish Camp.Unlike many parents who send ...
Yom HaShoah: Oral Histories Help Us “Never Forget”
Today is Yom HaShoah, and while the atrocities committed by the Nazis and their collaborators may seem very distant from ...