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When 50 Happens to Good People: Part One

I turned 50. It wasn’t supposed to happen to me. I do yoga. I moisturize. I still fit into the ...

When 50 Happens to Good People: Part Two

Ok, so I hadn’t done time in prison, I’d just spent one day there. I’d just covered what was believed ...

Hebrew By Design

Before I could read and write in English, I spoke Yiddish. At age 3 I learned the Hebrew alef-bet alongside ...

My Children Won’t be Jews Like Me

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

Respect in the Synagogue

Rabbinic restrictions on behavior in the synagogue reveal continuing tension between ordinary Jews' sense of being at home and at ease there, and the desire of rabbis to set it apart as a sacred place.

The Pros and Cons of a Day School Education

One parent shares her family's thoughts about the possibility of her daughter attending a Jewish day school.

About Jewish Lifecycle

About Jewish Lifecycle. Jewish Ceremonies and Rituals.

The ISJL at 13: Resolutions

2013 marks the ISJL’s thirteenth year of existence.Our B’nai Mitzvah Year.*We will go through many of the same things any ...

Torah From Life, or Life From Torah?

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

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