Monthly Archives:April 2024

On Pesah 2023, we had an unexpected visitor. A middle aged man who appeared scared and lost was pacing up and down our suburban street ...

It’s been 195 days but for me (and I imagine many others) it’s still October 7. With millions of people in Israel and Gaza embroiled ...

The spring holiday of Pesah, in English “Passover,” is a celebration of the Jewish origin story. During Pesah, we commemorate the miraculous account described in ...

TL;DR: be prepared, foster a collaborative experience, practice the melodies, be creative, and TALK.

Toward the end of his life, Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch, a prominent German rabbi and Jewish thinker in the 19th century, insisted on traveling by ...

I joined the BJ Hebrew school program as a shy fourth grader. Since my parents took a couple of years to find the right synagogue, ...