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 - Vayeishev: Making an Impact
Many of us know the story of Jacob and Esau, the brothers who could not be more different from one another.
On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah - Tzav: How to Be a Leader
Parashat Tzav opens with a command to Aaron, the high priest. It’s a moment to think about leadership – who are our leaders and what do they do? Are our leaders born into the role, like Aaron, or are they called to leadership, like Moses?
On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah - Pesach: Why is This Passover Different from Other Passovers?
In this special Passover episode of On the Other Hand, Rabbi Jacobs discusses empathy. The story of Passover asks that we put ourselves in the shoes of those who escaped slavery and travelled to freedom, and that we think about what it’s like to have nothing.