Podcast: How to Open The Conversation About God With Your Child
Podcast: The Importance of Stories, Modeling and Questioning in Building Children's Spiritual Selves
Learn about the techniques, challenges, and rewards of keeping the conversation about God open with our children.
Podcast: The Power of Quiet Moments and Family Traditions
Learn about the techniques, challenges, and rewards of keeping the conversation about God open with our children.
Podcast: Be Happy or Be Good?
Learn the importance of teaching our kids to care for others as a top priority and about some of the moral dilemmas kids face.
Podcast: The Moral Development of Parents
Discover why parents need to be self-aware and how being friends with our kids can hamper their moral development.
Podcast: Why All Parents Need Each Other
Here's a look at parenting as a communal endeavor and how to find mentors that parent differently than we do.
Podcast: A Time to Weep
Every year in September, parents face the challenge of addressing 9/11 with their children. Find guidance in the advice that Rabbi Edie Mencher gave on the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah: Three United Faiths, One Divine Presence - parashat Vayak’heil-P’kudei
In Vayak’heil-P’kudei, we see that God was so pleased with the Israelites’ sacred space (the Tabernacle) that God’s own presence descended upon them as they wandered through the desert.
On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah: Slowing Ourselves to Anger - parashat Ki Tisa
What is the Jewish approach to anger? How do we deal with it in a way that’s healthy? This week, Rabbi Rick Jacobs explores Parashah Ki Tisa and explores God’s anger toward the Israelites for their idolatry as well as the impact that our own anger can have on ourselves.
On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah - Using Our Words to Heal, Not Hurt - Parashiyot Tazria and M’tzora
For many Jews, Parashiyot Tazria and M’tzora are perhaps the most nerve-inducing of all the Torah portions.