Grounded In Strength, We Are A Force
This has been a difficult day following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. While this outcome doesn’t come as a surprise after months of warnings (and years […]
June 24, 2022
June 23, 2022
Jon Lovett Brings Politics, Comedy To St. Paul
As someone who first made his name in political circles as a speechwriter, Jon Lovett’s route to Washington started in a less conventional way: a math major. “I wrote op-eds […]
June 3, 2022
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 […]
June 2, 2022
An Appreciation of Noodle Kugel
When I read homages to Jewish food, I often see appreciations of bagels, latkes, black-and-white cookies, challah … notice that these are all carb foods. Let me chime in about […]
May 25, 2022
Tired Of Excuses
I remember where I was when the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre took place. I was in ninth grade and sitting at lunch when the news broke. Someone had walked into […]
April 28, 2022
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. […]
April 21, 2022
Moroccan-Jewish Mimouna Brings Spirit Of Coexistence To Twin Cities
For Hadar Pe’er, St. Paul’s Israeli shaliach, Passover in the Twin Cities has come with some surprises. “I’m coming here from a very different culture,” Pe’er said. “I’m seeing different […]
April 18, 2022
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 […]
April 15, 2022
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 […]
April 15, 2022
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 […]