4 Ways to Welcome Youth this Holiday Season – and Strengthen Your Congregation
Here are four ways to strengthen your congregation by intentionally welcoming children and teens into your holiday observance.
How Our Congregation Supports Baby Boomers in Transition
Our synagogues need to be places where we heighten our awareness to aging issues so we can more fully engage Baby Boomers in all aspects of Jewish life.
8 Ways To Connect With Jewish Life On Campus
It’s that time of the year again: moving into new dorms and apartments, buying pens and notebooks, and double-checking schedules to make sure you get to the right class. While the start of every school year is exciting, it’s also an incredibly exciting time to be Jewish on campus.
Camping, Canoeing, Cavorting: Lessons Learned in Nature
For our second year, my husband and I ventured to upper Michigan with 21 other happy campers (including our rabbi!) from Congregation Hakafa in Glencoe, IL.
How to Prepare Yourself and Your Congregation for the High Holidays
For the Jewish community, the balmy days of summer are far from relaxing, perhaps never more so than this year, as we grappled with the meaning of the events in Charlottesville,
Using the Un’taneh Tokef as a Guide to Living
On Rosh HaShanah it is written; on Yom Kippur it is sealed. But there’s an awful lot that happens in the middle.
5 Books to Help You Prepare for the High Holiday Season
The real preparation for the upcoming Days of Awe is the work I need to put into myself. To be the best model for my congregants, I must practice what I preach.
On Chocolate and Children: High Holiday Reflections
Our daughter-in-law gave birth to our first grandchild. A couple of months later, On the Chocolate Trail was published. Each whispers of mortality and immortality.
The Two Reform Jewish Programs That Changed My Life
I learned that I could make a change. I learned that I was needed to make a change. And I learned, above all, that I wanted to make a change.