Interfaith Family

Finance Free Friday Nights: How Shabbat Can Help Ease Weekday Anxiety

Virginia Avniel Spatz, Cary O’Brien
A checkbook and a papier-maché cup are central to our family’s Shabbat. These ritual items – as important to us as candles or kiddush cup – play an essential role in the “shutting off” that welcomes the sabbath to our house.
Hand lighting a full menorah of colorful Hanukkah candles

From Gelt to Gimmel: A Personal Hanukkah Journey

Barry Shainker
I now proudly define myself not as an assimilated Jew, but as a modern and engaged Jew who is committed to Jewish life and practice while still living a life in the secular world.