Health & Wellness
The Importance of Going to a Jewish Camp
This post is part of our series dedicated to Jewish Disability Awareness Month. When I was seven years old, I ...
Rambam and Medicine
Maimonides, popularly known as Rambam, was born on March 30, 1135. Maimonides is best known as a philosopher, prolific author and jurist: ...
5 Reasons Parents Should Send Their Children With Disabilities to Jewish Camp
This post is part of our series dedicated to Jewish Disability Awareness Month. I must confess. When I first started ...
The Hobby Lobby Supreme Court Case: How One Case Could Change Everything
Rabbi (to be) Ari Naveh recently shared how he balances the line between being a gay rabbi—and a rabbi who ...
The Inhumanity of “Affordable Care”
A few days ago, the distraction of actual governance in Washington was the report on Employment, the economy, and the ...
Jewish Disability Awareness Month
February is Jewish Disability Awareness Month (JDAM), which brings a topic that is very important to us at the Foundation ...
How to Be the Jewish Daughter of a Cancer Patient
Today is World Cancer Day, a day when people worldwide are focused on cancer, to encourage its prevention, detection, and ...
The What-if Moment
There’s no point pretending this blog post is going to be about camp or summer, especially summer. Montreal in February ...
We Hereby Resolve
On New Year’s Eve, my wife, Cynthia, our son, Jonah, just turned fifteen, our new puppy, Phoebe, five months old, ...
In The Words of Chuck Selber, Part 2: A Jew, A Writer, And So Much More
This post continues our December series on the life and work of AIDS activist Chuck Selber.Chuck was, as his mom ...
My Son, His Autism, and My New Appreciation for Hanukkah
Last August, when my son, Jonah, returned from sleepaway camp with a sunburn, an array of nasty-looking mosquito bites, and a ...
Claiming Myself as a Victim of Terror
In radio and newspaper interviews I’ve done recently, a singular question has been asked more than any other: if your wife ...