Tips For Celebrating Shavuot This Year

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Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, Any tips for celebrating Shavuot this year? Signed, Screaming […]

Trust Me

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As someone who grew up in Minneapolis proper, it took me a while to become comfortable with the idea of myself as a suburban mom. I’d been a Minneapolitan all […]

The Omer: What Are We Counting? And Why?

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Why do we count the Omer? Ask 3 people and you might well get 3 answers. We are counting the days between Pesach and Shavuot, the time we left the […]

A Year After Encampments, Campus Challenges Remain

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On the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus, the spring of 2024 was difficult for Jewish students: antisemitic graffiti, pro-Palestinian encampments, terrorist flags being waved, and a general unease in […]

How To Manage Meal-Ordering Anxiety At Work Meetings

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Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, I started my current job during COVID, and over […]

Another Devastating Step In the “Year of Firsts”

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When a parent passes, one of the hardest parts – at least for me – is the “year of firsts” – the first holiday without them, birthdays, Mother’s or Father’s […]

A Story About the Stories from the Tribe

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Before there were blogs…Before there were Zoom meetings… Before there were email chains and Facebook messengers and TikTok influencers… There were storytellers.   As a child I remember sitting around the […]