When I first began kindergarten, I was very excited about school. However, in the following years, my enthusiasm dwindled as school became a routine part of life.

Is there a portion more difficult for a 21st century Jew who asks, "what does this mean for me today"? 

Vegan Jews believe that choosing not to include animals in our diets and lifestyles honors our health and respects the creatures with whom we share this amazing planet.

We encouraged our daughter, Sydney Plovsky, who is a sophomore at Elon University, to read Torah during the High Holidays at her school; growing up, she had been a frequent Torah reader at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, N.C.

As I sit on the porch in New Hampshire, watching the sun shine and the pond glisten through the trees in the distance, fall feels very far away. If only there was a way to slow down time.

This week is Teacher Appreciation Week, and my synagogue got a jump on it by celebrating a little early. On May 3^rd, we honored our congregation’s nursery school and religious school teachers, whose hard work and dedication were acknowledged on the bimah.

Earlier tonight, I was catching up with my college roommate, Terry.

Of all the earliest memories I have of our temple and my family's relationship to it, none has been quite as poignant as the student seders that are run every year on the days before Passover at our Hebrew School.

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Education is the key to success. This axiom seems so intuitive that the idea of a major segment of a country’s population excluding itself from basic education seems ridiculous.