Shavuot

What It Means to Graduate

Mazel Tov, Young Graduates!You’ve done it! Your hard work has paid off. We put hoop after hoop in front you, ...

Meesh: Back then, in biblical times, the ceiling was not glass, and I don’t think Esther or Ruth made any attempt ...

It’s Shavuot! It’s Memorial Day weekend! It’s my first week in a new city! In fact, it’s all three of ...

Two years ago at the ISJL Education Conference, there was a wonderful program about diversity and inclusion in our Jewish ...

As we are approach the end of the Counting of the Omer, the 49-day period between Passover and Shavuot, I’m ...

As I wrote in The Torch last fall, I started attending the early morning minyan at my synagogue with the ...

1 in 6 contemporary Jews are new to Judaism. How are we supposed to welcome these converts? Rabbi Juan Mejia, a ...

Megillat Ruth is named for the heroine Ruth, who clung to Naomi in what the tradition has perceived as an ...

Last year I rediscovered Megillat Ruth. On the morning of the second day of Shavuot I joined a closely knit ...

As I strolled through the greenhouses at Longwood Gardens the other day, brilliant blossoms of yellow and white and blue ...