“Apologizing is a courageous act, because we’re overcoming all of our own animal instincts and all of our own self-protectiveness when we do it.” – Marjorie Ingall, Sorry,
By Jaime Glazerman For many of us, a major Jewish holiday, simcha or other family gathering can conjure both excitement and dread. We can relate
By Max Hollander The High Holiday season is a period of rapid transition. We move from periods of normalcy to periods of relaxation to periods
Download By Max Hollander On the High Holidays, we traditionally recite the U’Tanah Tokef prayer, named after its opening words: וּנְתַנֶּה תֹּקֶף קְדֻשַּׁת הַיּוֹם כִּי
By Max Hollander Download The Mishnah in tractate Ta’anit makes a strange claim. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel said: There were no days as joyous for
The following includes excerpts from Ze’ev Korn, LCSW, MSW, EdM’s upcoming book, “Stop Falling Apart, Start Cracking Up, Learn to Live The Way of Humor™”
By Ruby Falk In Order to Remember, We Must Forgive My dad, George, was funny, loved to play his guitar(s), had great style, was brilliant
By Rabbi Sandra Cohen One of the highlights of Rosh Hashanah (at least in shul) is the blowing of the shofar. We hear its notes,
Co-authored by: Carly Coons, LSW, Director of Education & Programming at the Blue Dove Foundation and Erica Baruch, Jewish Disabilities Advocates Advisor at JFS Jewish Disabilities Advocates
Watch the Sermon Here. It starts at 3:16. Over the summer I read a wonderful book. It’s called Undelivered: the Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have