so it’s gone these past few weeks …in the middle of working with a client, or
driving home from a routine doctor appointment, I’ve been holding back tears…
Tag: Jews
Truth In Action #2
“Is kindness truth?”, he asked. “Yes”, a few of us said. The others remained quiet. We knew by now that our teacher perceived the world beyond customary logic.
Jews Of All Different Stripes
Yet sitting around the Seder table telling the story in different languages, our strangeness to each other falls away. Our distinct differences highlight our
Going Backwards – To Move Forward
Who knew being unabashedly Jewish was the missing link? Perhaps someone feels the same way… no sense of belonging to any Jewish co
Yom Kippur – a Pearl
I asked… “Can you explain Yom Kippur in a nutshell to me?” This is what I’ve learned…On Yom Kippur…
we return to who we really are. The deepest part of
TRUST G-D? ONE STEP BACK, TWO STEPS FORWARD: Recap #2
Several readers have asked how specifically I went from hating being Jewish to falling in love with it. Here are the stories about coming to trust and love
FREE MY SOUL: give me the beat
A very wise Rabbi once said that anything can be used for the good or the bad including music… Music just creeps into our beings.. It brings out the child
FALLING IN LOVE WITH JUDAISM
I’ve talked about NOT wanting Judaism, why love it now? My love affair with Judaism has been a slow burn. Simply the DESIRE was…
MINI SKIRTS & STILL JEWISH part 2
But when I became a mom, my then-husband and I wanted to give our sons some connection to their religion, another feeling of home. I didn’t want to leave them empty-handed…
MINI SKIRTS & JEWISH
I ate bbq pork ribs, delicious Italian salami subs, wore micro mini skirts, and was told often, “you’re Jewish? I thought you were Italian”… I was living the American dream.