Bar/Bat Mitzvah

About me: I’m a judicial officer. I’ve served on presidential and gubernatorial campaigns, and as counsel to my state Senate. I earned one ...

One of the conversations that I had early in rabbinic school about how we connect to the wisdom of Torah ...

Drake’s recent SNL skit (see below), perhaps unwittingly but then again perhaps not, highlighted how a bar or bat mitzvah ...

I’ve done everything “right”: given my children Jewish education, sent them to Jewish camps, spent time with them in Israel ...

I became Bar Mitzvah on April 20th, 2002, the 130th anniversary of Hitler’s birth. My dad’s side of the family ...

I am a very, very strong supporter of equal rights and the freedom of men and women to marry whomever ...

What gift to get for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah? The challenge with gifts for a life cycle event is ...

Picture this: a really mean kid.A kid who spends each day at school calling others names, like fat and loser. ...

In the fortunate cases it is the grandparents, often it is the parents, and sometimes even a sibling who stands ...

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

The call comes in the middle of the night.“Your nephew’s got it in his head that he wants to have ...

I’m a big fan of Julie Weiner’s blog at The Jewish Week.  It’s one of those blogs that I read ...