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Yet another holiday about which I am ambivalent, Mother’s Day seems this year to have engendered rather more commentary than ...

I am remembering a Jewish Universal mother. This woman was small in stature yet grand in her effect. A mother ...

Passover is a time for people to gather around tables, share stories, food, and rituals. It can be joyous and ...

The HaggadahWhen my family sits down to the seder table, we won’t be passing around the Maxwell House Hagaddahs. We ...

Coming out is hard. Coming out to your family at Shabbat dinner is really hard. Take a look at how ...

Those of you who follow my comedy know that my wife is a Black woman who converted to Judaism. What ...

No thunder, bolts of lightning, heavenly voices, not even a friendly angel. Nonetheless, a transforming life experience, frozen in time ...

This summer Lindsey Newman and Josh Rothstein are going to be leading the first free Taglit Birthright Israel trip with a focus ...

Today is World Cancer Day, a day when people worldwide are focused on cancer, to encourage its prevention, detection, and ...

Drake’s recent SNL skit (see below), perhaps unwittingly but then again perhaps not, highlighted how a bar or bat mitzvah ...