The Canteen

I first thought that I might be different when I was in sixth grade.I went to Jewish day school, and ...

Gilad and I welcomed our baby girl into the world on January 1st. Sivan Amali Shwartz arrived just in time ...

I recently saw “Matilda” on Broadway. Let me tell you – the kids in that show are incredible! I was ...

SHIRA & NOAH MENCOW HICHENBERG When/how/where at camp did you meet? I arrived at staff training at Camp Ramah in ...

On New Year’s Eve, my wife, Cynthia, our son, Jonah, just turned fifteen, our new puppy, Phoebe, five months old, ...

“Always thinking, you.  Always thinking.”A friend in graduate school mockingly accused one overachieving friend by telling her she was “always ...

As winter sets in, you probably don’t feel like making as many trips to the grocery store and are getting ...

Have you ever felt immediately welcomed in a new place? Well recently, Gilad came back from a recruiting trip to ...

I am not quite sure when I first started to understand the notion of homosexuality. When Billie Jean King was ...

Last August, when my son, Jonah, returned from sleepaway camp with a sunburn, an array of nasty-looking mosquito bites, and a ...

On their surfaces, Hanukkah and Thanksgiving are simple holidays.  We see the themes of light breaking through the darkness, a ...

Growing up in Odessa, Ukraine until I was 15 years old I knew about two dozen Jews personally. Of those, ...