Rabbis in Training
Rabbi Joshua ben Perachya said: Make for yourself a teacher (rav), get yourself a study partner, and give every person the benefit of the doubt in judgment.
-Mishnah, Avot 1:6
Finding Shabbat When the Holiday’s Magic Seems to Have Disappeared
When my son Sammy was in preschool, Shabbat was magical.
What Jewish Millennials Want
We are creatures of expression living in an age of expression. We are deluged daily with information and opinion, with pundits and preachers proffering perspective. Many of us spend hours every day spreading philosophical truths and culinary creations on social media.
How We Brought Camp Into our Religious School
- That they make friends
- That they have fun while learning at Religious School
- That their Jewish identity be developed through Jewish cultural and social experiences – time with friends doing Jewish activities such as cooking and singing.
Lessons in Parenting: My Kids Don't Believe in God or Love
One of the most surprising things for me as a parent has been how different my kids are from me. I guess it was naïve, but I thought it would be natural for kids to be like their parents (though one could point out that I have turned out very differently than my own parents).
Lending My Voice to Women of the Wall
As a fall semester student in NFTY-EIE High School in Israel, I participated in a Rosh Chodesh service last month at the Kotel (Western Wall).
Securing a High Quality Public Education System for America’s Children
Jacobs Camp Welcomes Kids of Active Duty Service Members
Barriers to Forming Loving Families: Adoption Laws and Same-Sex Couples
How Jewish Summer Camp Prepared Me for the Israeli Army
Going into summer 2013, I knew that it would be my last summer at URJ Camp George, a Reform Jewish summer camp in Ontario, Canada - at least for a little while.