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My colleagues Joshua Ratner and Alana Suskin have offered their perspectives on kids trick or treating, and generally engaging (or ...

Below, Rabbi Alana Suskin explains why her family doesn’t trick-or-treat. To hear from another Jewish mom with a different perspective, ...

Hoshana Rabbah is kind of a weird day – even for the Jewish calendar. It’s not really a holiday – ...

“How do I go on?”  I was asked recently at a service following the death of a beautiful woman in ...

Judaism, a religion that focuses primarily on life, rather than the afterlife, provides a meticulous set of standards regarding the ...

Memories can play such tricks on our minds. Last night, I returned to a synagogue where my husband had served ...

The eldest son was chosen by his father to recite the Kaddish in his memory.Standing at the gravesite where his ...

The important thing is not how many separate injunctions are obeyed but how and in what spirit we obey them. ...

Two weeks ago I wrote about the tragic loss of little Ayelet Galena z”l. I discussed how one young life ...

This week has been a heavy one for the Jewish people and an indescribably difficult one for the parents of ...