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 - Shof’tim: Demanding Justice
At the core of being Jewish is a fundamental demand for justice. Demanding justice involves asking others to work toward a more just world, but it also involves asking ourselves to do that work.
On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah - Ki Teitzei: The Morality of War
Ki Teitzei translates to “when you go out,” but it doesn’t mean going out to dinner or the movies.
On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah - Ki Tavo: Spiritual Centering
Hasket, which translates to silence or stillness, is a word that appears in the Torah only once, during this week's Parasha, Ki Tavo.
On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah - Nitzavim: Why Organ Donation is Jewish
Parashat Nitzavim features the phrase “choose life,” but what does it mean to choose life? One way of choosing life is by becoming an organ donor. Rabbi Jacobs discusses why this lifesaving choice is part of his Jewish values in this episode of On the Other Hand.