Battle of the Joyous February Celebrations: Purim vs. the Super Bowl
It's February, and I take issue with T.S. Eliot. It is not April but February which is the cruelest month. Cold, dark, and brutish, with none of the celebratory feel of December and January, spring feels months away during February. Thankfully, February has our greatest secular holiday - the Super Bowl - and our most gleeful Jewish holiday, Purim.
This Purim, May We Each Take the Mask Off Our God
Galilee Diary: Brand Recognition II
The assimilationists shied away from our Jewish holidays as obstacles on the road to their submergence among the majority because they were ashamed of anything which would identify them as a distinct group, but why must we carry on their tradition?
Leaving a Jewish Legacy to Our Grandchildren
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. -Michael J. Fox
Baby Boomers, Children, and Jewish Disability Awareness Month
Recently my employer, Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis, invited a guest speaker talk to our staff about Social Security and the options about when to file. It was full of information on which to make an informed decision about retiring and collecting Social Security and Medicare.
8 Tips on How to Be a Positive Jewish Role Model
What does it take to be a positive Jewish role model?
Vashti: Finding a Feisty Feminist in our Purim Story
A few years ago, I found myself in a bit of a Purim predicament specifically pertaining to the “to tell or not to tell” dilemma regarding Vashti, one of the oft forgotten players in our Purim tale.
Celebrating Shabbat in Tel Aviv the Reform Way
Last Friday night, I celebrated Kabbalat Shabbat in Tel Aviv, but not in my usual manner.
Beautiful Discrimination: How Social Media Turned One Person's Ignorance into Another's Healing
There is a place inside my emotional being I don’t touch. It is deep in my soul and rests there like a stone. People who know me know that I am open, candid. I share myself easily and readily. But not this. This place is hidden and quiet and confusing.