Who Should Teach About Hanukkah and What Should They Be Teaching?
Now that my daughter is in preschool, I've come to realize that hearing about cultural and religious practices directly from the practitioners only emphasizes our otherness.
The Gift: A Song of Love
There were about a hundred of us standing around in a room, the same room we had been in since early morning. Only now it was evening. We had spent the day listening and learning about the significance of life.
It’s All in the Approach
Though you might not know it from the back of the plane, those last few minutes of your trip are statistically the most challenging.
Prophecy and Primogeniture: A Patriarchal Transformation
The telling and retelling of family stories is essential to the creation of identity. Without family stories, each of us is adrift on the sea of human experience, unable to find safe harbor or more than temporary mooring.
I'm Jewish and my wife isn't. Every year, we go to my in-laws to celebrate Christmas with them. Will it be too confusing to my daughter?
There are many opportunities to share in the beauty of different faith traditions that may exist within one family. There is no reason why sharing your in-laws traditions would end up being confusing to your daughter.
Kutz@50: A Gathering of the Generations
18 Questions to Ask Your Child After Summer Camp
Noach for Tots: Constructing the Ark
Examine the building of Noah's ark with your children to help them to learn about and understand this Torah portion.
Letting God Into Our Lives
In Parashat Mikeitz, we find ourselves in the middle of one of the most complete and compelling human stories in the Book of Genesis. Unlike the narratives about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, however, a large section of the Joseph story contains no mention of God.