Get Out and Pray: Warmer Weather Worship
When you were a kid, you might have heard your friends call to you, “Come out and play!” Or perhaps your elders urged you, when the weather was pleasant, to […]
Jewish Song of the Week: ‘No Right Way to Love’ by Jason Mesches
June is Pride Month, which is an extra special opportunity to let the people WE love who identify as LGBTQIA+ know that we love them no matter who THEY love. […]
Challah Dolly: Not Your Bubbie’s Challah
During the pandemic, many people have taken up hobbies or learned new skills, some to keep from losing their minds, others for more entrepreneurial reasons. Dolly Meckler, founder of Challah […]
Why I Love Shavuot So Much – And Appreciate How Little Prep It Requires
Shavuot: some people refer to it as the Forgotten Major Jewish holiday. It gets much less press than Passover, which it follows. It doesn’t have the commercial glow of Hanukkah […]
Jewish Song Of The Week: ‘Yerushalayim Shel Zahav’ by Laurie Akers
Jerusalem is a SPECIAL place. There’s nothing like walking through the Old City, visiting the shuk, and watching the entire city come to a halt on Shabbat. To me, this […]
Jewish Song of the Week: ‘Connected’ by Melita Silberstein
Spring is such a special time of year, and a great reminder that everything is “Connected.” For me, there’s NOTHING like going for a walk or a hike to feel […]
How I Became Holocaust Girl: A Story for Yom HaShoah
I got the nickname, Holocaust Girl, back in college. Little did they—the poetry department mean girls—know, instead of feeling insulted and ridiculed, as they had hoped, I loved the designation. […]
Love in a Lunch Box: Tips For a New Passover Tradition
This article originally ran in the St. Louis Jewish Light Though each of my children has gone through brief phases of packing her own lunch or buying at school, I […]
Moving from Constriction: A Passover 2022 Message
This year, the Passover journey from Egypt and slavery to freedom and human dignity feels particularly poignant. The Hebrew word for Egypt, mitzrayim, also connotes “the narrow place,” a place […]
On Pesach, She
On Pesach, she would host 30 guests. Her siblings, children, friends without family nearby. The dining room table was extended to its maximum length, extra card tables snaking into the […]