My son was at the Mount Meron disaster
By Rabbi ROBYN FRISCH This article first appeared on Kveller. On Thursday evening, as I was just about to close my computer, I
Israeli Memorial Day and post-traumatic growth
By SHERRI MANDELL (JNS) – For some of us, this is a whole year we don’t want to remember. A year
Marilyn Shapiro: Tussle at the pool—WWE one; Marilyn zero
By MARILYN SHAPIRO It was 7 a.m. Monday morning, and I was at our community pool to do my hour of
The case of the missing matzot…
By JEFF GOLDFINGER Every item in the U.S. military supply system has a national stock number whether it be a pen,
Marilyn Shapiro: Fighting COVID fatigue as Pesach nears; Family helps with vitality renewal
By MARILYN SHAPIRO Passover will not completely pass over us this year. When the spring holiday occurred last year, we were only
Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Marilyn keeps logging the miles…
By MARILYN SHAPIRO When Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the legal pioneer for gender equality and the second woman to serve on the
Their writing may have helped us make sense of a pandemic that was just beginning. Here’s what they’re thinking about as we enter year two
By LAURA E. ADKINS NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – What’s most heartbreaking about reading the essays published in March 2020 was
Marilyn Shapiro: Purim pause during the pandemic— a time to mask?
By MARILYN SHAPIRO “We’re having a celebration for Purim,” the president of my congregation announced excitedly at the end of a
Symbolism and meaning—time to revisit my favorite classics
By MARILYN SHAPIRO Can a book change a life? Our 10th grade English class was deep into The Scarlet Letter, a classic
Special in Uniform program of the JNF makes this American rabbi proud to be a Zionist
By Rabbi DAN ORNSTEIN The biblical Book of Numbers, chapter 4, repeatedly describes the ancient Levites’ sacred service in the mishkan