What is the meaning of Chanukah?
Just after Thanksgiving, someone I know started a post about how to celebrate Chanukah and its story of military victory with children …
“How are you Jewish?”
Last week, this post about Tyler Samuels’s experiences set me going about inclusion and what kinds of remarks defeat efforts to welcome …
The Jewish Melting Pot
I attended and led some diversity trainings within the Jewish community in 2021. White Jews of Ashkenazi descent (ancestors coming from northern …
The Turning of the Season
Last week, I had a semiannual appointment with a professional. She comes in September and March or April every year. For some …
Thanksgiving misgivings
The Pilgrim story of Thanksgiving was the one I grew up with. I was an adult when I learned that the first …