L'Taken Seminars

Democracy Is a Promise We Renew Every Day

Barbara Weinstein
Democracy is, indeed, a promise we renew not just on election day, but every day. Democracy does not exist independent of our contributions to it. Citizens and immigrants, voters, and presidents – all of us build democracy.

Hanukkah: More Than Just Presents?

Katharine Nasielski
This weekend, we will gather together with family or friends (or, if you’re on the RAC staff, with 215 high school students at L’Taken) around the Chanukah lights, spin the dreidel, eat latkes and sufganyot and engage in the great “applesauce or sour cream” debate.

L'ta-what?

Sarah Krinsky

You know when you write or read a word too many times and it starts to look funny? Like – is that really how that word is spelled? Do I even remember what this word means? That happened to me this weekend with a word (or, more accurately, a transliteration of