Family Engagement Nights


“Our Lucky Thirteenth” I don’t know if you are aware of this, but Jews tend to be very superstitious people. When we hear good news we say, “Keinahora,” a conjunction of three Yiddish words said fast – “Kain” “Ayin”…
The look on Tina’s face said it all. “Isn’t there anything else in the portion we can take a look at?” she asked me, after we read through the verses her daughter Isabella had been assigned. We had just delved…
There are 23,008 words in the book of Deuteronomy that we begin this week. But despite its length, Moses’ final speech to the Jewish people only seems to scratch the surface of what he needs to say. The length of…


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I was recently brought in to explain “Fiddler on the Roof” to a local school district with almost no Jews. I told them about my family’s story, forced to leave Russia at the turn of the 20th Century to escape…

