2013

Jews in the Pew (Survey)

Like everyone else I know who is active in the Jewish community, my Facebook page and email inbox have been ...

Breast Cancer and Jews: Know Your Risk!

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Since a peer-led health initiative is one of the programs I help coordinate, I ...

May All Of Our Hearts Be Moved to Action

A week ago, a woman named Deb took her life in New Jersey. I learned about her death in an ...

October Blues

It’s only been a month and a half since my son Jonah returned from sleep-away camp and I’m already feeling ...

Have a Little Faith

A lot has been made of the new Pew Study on the Jewish population. I am enjoying reading the various ...

A New Spiritual Comfort Zone: Reflecting on the Pew Study

As Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz says, statistics in the Pew Research Center’s survey of American Jewish attitudes and beliefs are wide ...

Camp and the “Real World”

Campers and staff often state at the end of a camp session or summer that they wish camp could last ...

On Writing a Fictionalized Account of Baruch Spinoza’s Family

I’ve often been asked both by journalists and by my readers why my novel  The Elixir of Immortality  tells the ...

Thoughts on the #Shutdown: “For Our Nation And Its Rulers”…

I was listening to National Public Radio on the way into work this morning, hearing more and more details of ...

The Hobby Lobby Hanukkah Hubbub

This week, my Facebook news-feed is filled with outrage about the fact that Hobby Lobby won’t carry Hanukkah decorations. Many ...

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