2013

Why does it sometimes feel almost counter-cultural to pack your kids off to camp? Maybe because we’re living in a ...

Some folks are born with the balabusta gene and others are not. It’s that simple. If you didn’t happen to grow up ...

Rabbi Jane Litman first presented these words of Torah for Simchat Torah in 2006, as part of the Torah Queeries ...

I’ll confess right off that this is not my most embarrassing culinary moment, because I actually air the worst ones in my ...

Dearest Students,Early on in the academic year (and the Jewish New Year!), I thought it would be a poignant time ...

I recently met a woman who I really liked. We have a lot in common, being  professionally accomplished Jewish women ...

Occasionally, a book about Jewish prayer will tell you that Judaism discourages spontaneous prayer. That magic of Jewish prayer, the ...

Today’s reflective post comes from Education Fellow Lex Rofes.The end of summer can be a whirlwind for ISJL Education Fellows, ...

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

“How do I go on?”  I was asked recently at a service following the death of a beautiful woman in ...