living jewishly

Lost in Translation

Growing up in Odessa, Ukraine until I was 15 years old I knew about two dozen Jews personally. Of those, ...

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 ...

Sleepaway Camp and the Future of Jewish Life

Jeremy J. Fingerman is the CEO of the Foundation for Jewish Camp. Last week, I had the distinct privilege of ...

Seeking Shelter

This past Sunday I convinced my sons to join me out back to put up our Sukkah, ritual dwelling for Sukkot, arguing that ...

Jewish Peoplehood at Camp

The Jewish values of Klal Yisrael and Am Yisrael speak to an idea of Jewish peoplehood and Jewish communal unity ...

The Summer of Living Jewishly

This summer my plan is to start writing a book with the working title God Laughs: How Judaism Ruined My ...

The Truth About Motherhood

Earlier this week, Stefanie Pervos Bregman, the editor of Living Jewishly, wrote about engaging 20- and 30- somethings in the Jewish world ...

Storytellers

As a Jewish blogger and editor, I always say that the period leading up to Jewish Book Month is one of ...