Your Purim Planning Primer
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Start your holiday planning!
Continue readingFebruary 28, 2020
February 26, 2020
What Do You Want People To Know?
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For Jewish Disabilities Awareness and Inclusion Month, we asked people with disabilities or special needs in their families: What do you wish other people knew or understood about: 1) You, your child(ren) with disabilities /special needs and/or your family; and 2) your experiences as person with or parent or family of a person with disabilities/special […]
Continue readingFebruary 19, 2020
February 7, 2020
Friendship: Each According To His Way
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It is 7:05 a.m. on a Thursday morning in early January and I somehow find myself in my car with my almost 10-year old son eating his breakfast in the back seat, trying to perform the small feat of taking him to see his best friend in Minneapolis while still getting him to his school […]
Continue readingJanuary 31, 2020
The Title Of My TED Talk
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Every inspirational movie has one. It usually happens right at the main character’s turning point. Just after they decide to make a change and throw themselves into the pursuit of whatever it is they are choosing to pursue. We’ve all seen it. It’s “The Montage Sequence.” I’ve always been fascinated and amused by the montage […]
Continue readingJanuary 29, 2020
The Importance Of Showing Up
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It was summer 2017 and my cousin and I was hiding out from the oppressive New York City heat in the air-conditioned lounge of the newly opened One Brooklyn Bridge Hotel. The place was brand new; a mostly undiscovered hidden gem at the edge of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The lounge had a living wall creeping […]
Continue readingJanuary 24, 2020
Herzl Launches Jewish Summer Camp For 20s and 30s
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Are you excited for classic camp activities like boating, campfires, and capture the flag?
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Herzl Camp Adds Aerial Park
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Campers will face new challenges at Herzl Camp next summer!
Continue readingJanuary 22, 2020
What’s Really The Climate For Jewish Students On Campus?
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Over the past decade, across the United States, college campuses have ingrained a deep sense of fear in the Jewish community. Jewish college students have been ostracized, refused letters of recommendation by professors, boycotted, shouted down, and compared to white supremacists and Nazis – a trend largely tied to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) […]
Continue readingJanuary 15, 2020
Teen Playwrights Preparing Holocaust Story For The Stage
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As actors, Carly Joseph and Abby Anderson are used to being on stage. But on a recent Sunday afternoon, the two were doing everything else: Crawling through scenery to test a lighting effect, workshopping new lines, marking the floor for recently-obtained props, and trying to usher a cast of peers through one of their final […]
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