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Celebrate, Hanukkah, Rabbis Without Borders
Light Doesn’t Happen By Accident
A few years ago, I was browsing through a Judaica store. After looking at the books, and the Shabbat candlesticks, ...
Celebrate, Shavuot, Southern & Jewish
Shavuot & Giving: Taking the Time to Get It Right
The holiday of Shavuot demonstrates a method of gift giving that we may want to deploy when thinking about advancing ...
What Happens on Erev Yom Kippur, the Night Before the Holiday?
Rituals for entering the Day of Atonement.
Scandal and Self-Correction in Kosher Food Certification
This past March, the owner of Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat Market, Los Angeles’s largest purveyor of kosher meat, was discovered smuggling repackaged ...
Preparing for Passover in Memphis: A Trip Down Memory Lane
My Memphis holiday memories remind me what matters most
Celebrate, More Holidays, Southern & Jewish, Tu Bishvat
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr…on Tu Bishvat
What’s the first Jewish holiday we’ll be welcoming in the secular New Year of 2014 (besides Shabbat, of course)? Tu ...
Prozdor Heads South: Teens Tour the Southern Jewish World
Over the last few months, I had the pleasure of working to put together a Southern Jewish Heritage tour for a ...
Time to End the Hate Song
We find ourselves living at an interesting time on a couple of levels. Having just participated in two wonderful Seders ...