Jewish calendar

Don’t Just Mark the Jewish Holidays, Mark the Jewish Intervals

We need to be able to rest and recover from one run in order to perform at our best at the next one.

Balancing So Many Calendars

How to find the time to spend with those we truly care about.

Catching Our Breath

This Shabbat we celebrate the New Moon of Shevat, the beginning of the Hebrew month in which the world begins ...

It’s Time for a New Calendar

I have a rich undergraduate memory of a professor teaching about communities. She said that one of the key aspects ...

The Jewish Case for Daylight Saving Time

This past Sunday was one of my favorite days of the year, the day we set the clocks forward for ...

Excuse Me, Do You Know What Time It Is?

 There is an old joke about the Israeli fellow who would always ask people for the time. People would get irritated, ...

Anticipating Tiferet she’b’Tiferet

Almost eight years ago, on the evening of April 22nd, after a full day of labor, my husband Rick and ...