A Savory Sukkot
Sukkot: Festival of Voting Booths
Hanukkah Activities for Toddlers and Twos
Sukkot Blessings
It is a mitzvah to celebrate in the sukkah. While the Torah instructs us to live in the sukkah for seven days, many choose to only eat meals in the sukkah. When eating or reciting kiddush in the sukkah, recite this blessing:
Sukkot
Seven-day fall agricultural festival associated with temporary booths or huts.
Sukkot, Diversity, and Unity: How Each of Us is Like the Four Species
Preparing for 7 Billion: Family Planning
This is the first in a series of posts that highlights the challenges posed by a quickly growing global population. Last October, many families celebrated the birth of their newborn children representing milestones both in their personal lives and in the global community as the world rea
Family Trees, Branches, and Identity
The Book of Genesis involves a patchwork of stories. These are held together by an overarching framework that I refer to as "the ideological overlay."How are we to understand this structure? Picture eggs in an eggcrate.