I will be spending next year in Israel while competing in the Maccabiah Games, building homes and bio-farming in the Golan Heights, volunteering with Magen David Adom (Israel’s emergency medical response team) and working on the Israeli Defense Forces’ army base.
The new Reform siddur is a work of art. It arrived on the scene at about the same time I did, and so I was never thrown by its architecture, […]
Author Linda Glaser on her love of books, where ideas like Hoppy Hanukkah come from, and her involvement with PJ Library, a program through JFCS that gives free Jewish books to kids 8 and under.
Monica Routman has dark hair, dark eyes and olive skin. She’s been assumed to be everything from Hispanic to Mediterranean to Native American. But as you’ll see, she’s none of those things.
One roadblock on my path to official Jewish status was deciding whether “converting” to Judaism was even possible. Christianity has a checklist—aka the Nicene Creed. If you can affirm your […]