Could That Email Have Been A Text?
Got a question? E-mail me to submit a question, and to read future Miriam’s Advice Well columns, visit miriamsadvicewell.com weekly on Thursday. Dear Miriam, What are the social norms and […]
Take A Trip To ‘Cinema Sabaya’
Israel’s award-winning Cinema Sabaya (In Hebrew: סינמה סבאיא) is making its premiere on these shores two years after its release in Israel. During its journey, the movie won the “Israeli […]
How To Stop The Barrage Of Bad Gifts?
Got a question? E-mail me to submit a question, and to read future Miriam’s Advice Well columns, visit miriamsadvicewell.com weekly on Thursday. Dear Miriam, My first year as a classroom […]
What’s In A Name?
Got a question? E-mail me to submit a question, and to read future Miriam’s Advice Well columns, visit miriamsadvicewell.com weekly on Thursday. Dear Miriam, My husband and I are expecting […]
A Minneapolis View On The World Zionist Congress
While an exuberant Minneapolis delegation celebrated together Israel’s 75th anniversary, I had a parallel journey in Jerusalem as a delegate to the World Zionist Congress on April 19-21. As a […]
A Motherless Mother’s Day
I was 20 years old when I experienced my first Mother’s Day without my Mom, eight months after her death. She had lived 10 years fighting Breast Cancer and eventually, […]
An Evening With Judy Blume And ‘Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret’
Last week I had the singular thrill of breathing the same oxygen as the national treasure that is author Judy Blume when she sat for a Q&A at the 92nd […]
Add Flavor To Your Seder With Mexican Charoset, Passover Salsa
At Passover, we are called to imagine ourselves as part of the Exodus. To support this, we are encouraged to amend and augment tradition to reflect the times. The Seder […]
Jewish Song of the Week: ‘I Am Enough’ by Josh Goldberg
On JRR we have an amazing show called “Jewish Holiday Remix,” where host and Jewish singer-songwriter Jacob Spike Kraus creates a playlist of songs for specific Jewish holidays that go […]
Have Borscht, Will Travel
As we all know, the Jews have a deep connection to food. All of our holidays revolve around what we eat, what we don’t eat when we eat, how we […]