Mitzvah. Good deed? Commandment? You might be most familiar with the word mitzvah as it appears in Bar or Bat Mitzvah which is usually...

Remaining in Focus What many of us strive for in life is achieving personal integrity, a state of being when our ‘inside’ motivation...

“It is because I believed in God that I was angry at God, and still am. But my faith is tested, wounded, but it’s here. So whatever I...

The quiet allows the voice of our soul to emerge On the week before Shavuot, we begin the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible, known in...

What if God is waiting for us to cry out? What if all we need to do is to cry out in despair, as Abraham did thousands of years ago?...

I read something from an unlikely source that struck my deepest core as a Jew, and came to a full stop at a passage from the first...

It is hard for me to personalize Shavuot, though I know there is great spiritual meaning to be found within it. Shavuot is one of the...

What would you do in an emergency? I heard something disturbing that I couldn’t shake off. This is not what I usually write about, but I...

Yet Again? This piece in The Hill, written by Rabbi Steinmetz, senior rabbi at Congregation Kehillath Jeshurun and editor-at-large at...

For those of us hosting a Passover seder, there are often so many preparations we need to do in advance: buying, organizing, cleaning and...

How do you wake up every morning? Do you have a particular ritual? In Judaism, we have a tradition of waking up with a declaration of...

How many ants does it take to move an elephant? That’s what the traditionally bureaucratic Jewish community feels like to me sometimes,...

Summer camp.  Arts classes. Internships. Specialty Sports Camps. College Prep Programs. Travel programs. SAT summer prep classes....

Nice Seder, but not intensified Same Seder, intensified! What will you do to construct meaningful memories at Passover this year? The...

At different times in my life, Jewish educators would often prompt seminar audiences to describe and prioritize their Jewish identity....

The incredible beauty of the Venice Synagogue. The intricately carved mehitzah (separation) is on the far left. The rabbi’s D’var Torah...

Sales. Marketing. Branding. Social Media Presence. Analytics. SEO. ROI. Just a few short years ago, terms like these were absent from...

How can your Jewish community maximize campers’ experiences when they arrive home? Summer camp is exhilarating for our Jewish teens. For...

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Sloppy Words, Sloppy Food At times, I resist writing a post because I just don’t want to spend the time doing all the research it might...