“Who’s that guy?” I asked my mom.
“He’s the rabbi,” she answered. I stared up at my mom, with a blank gaze on my face.
When I was eight years old, my family joined a synagogue for the first time.
Even before then, we always had a fairly strong sense of Jewish
On the first Sunday of the first day of religious school, I challenge my seventh grade students: How do you have a conversation with God in the 21st century? Do you have a conversation at all? How do you come to God when life is good?
It is said that, “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” (Havelock Ellis) It is, to be sure, a balancing act for every parent.
I offer this prayer for the beginning of the school year... And so begins a new year.... May it be a year of learning and growth, a year of new
Over the past three years, I have struggled with God. At first, when we started trying to have children, I didn't know anything was wrong. I was excited and I would pray to God to help us conceive, but I was not terribly worried.