
Come Together
I stood less than 5 feet at age 16 when I started college. There were women in my class and students from all walks of

I have kept silent
I have kept silent about why I stopped going to the orthodox synagogue I was a member of for many years. I am now going

Godspeed and Goodluck
Thirty eight years ago a message was sent to humanity by the government and people of Israel. In keeping with the Torah precept: “Do not

Defining Moments
A story I have often told to illustrate our relationship with time is about a man at a party commiserating with others that he had

Beyond Hope
Dayenu, the popular Passover song’s theme is about gratitude—“if only this then that would be dayenu (enough). The earliest Passover memory I have is

The Counting of the Omer 2014 Getting our Identity Back
For the past few years we have “counted the Omer” together—a 50 day count from Passover to the holiday of Shavuot. Following the tradition in