People in My Neighborhood: Chaim and Dina
December 2011 I spoke to Dina the other day. She was having a hard time dealing with the recent...
Reflections from Israel
Reflections on Sukkot
October 2011 I found myself daydreaming last night while washing the dishes from dinner. My...
Reflections on The Pesach (Passover) Service
March 2010 In just two weeks, Jews from all over the world will be sitting down to the Pesach...
Reflections on Reverence
I love when my kids get to the age that they’re old enough to start learning some basic prayers...
Reflections on Shavuot
I told myself I would start my diet after the Shavuot holiday, but it's taken a week to finish...
Reflections on Getting Married
From the time Jewish children are young, it is instilled in them, through their parents, their...
Reflections on Prayer
School started a few weeks ago in Israel. On the first day, we don’t yet have the children’s...
Reflections on Head Coverings
September 2009 The other night Kuti and I came home to find my daughter Ahuva in the den,...
Reflections on Becoming Bar Mitzvah
Coming of age. Rites of passage. Somehow, to me this brings to mind images of a boy in a...
Reflections on War
So now we have a cease-fire. Yet even as I watched Olmert and Barak on T.V., announcing our...