Jewish Camp for All

March 14, 2013

Last summer, we found the perfect place for Ben. As I noted in Hello Mudda, Hello Fadder: And what I see is someone who bears a strong physical resemblance to my son. Only this one is smiling. All the time. No traces of his typical anxiety appear on his face. And doing things that I […]

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Later Love

March 12, 2013

I am smart enough to know that it is an unrealistic expectation that I will wake up in the morning looking beautiful. I also know that this unrealistic expectation was set and is fueled by television, movies. etc. where the heroine wakes up looking as fantastic as she did the night before. In other words, […]

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An Aching Heart

February 25, 2013

{This is based on a sermon that I delivered in 2005. Never did I imagine that my own family would endure such pain. Today, my brother and sister-in-law are preparing to welcome and say goodbye to their own baby, whose life ended before taking a single breath. Many thanks to Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin, whose […]

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Hannah’s Way — An Interview with Linda Glaser

February 12, 2013

I love reading. I always have. And I love all kinds of books. But as a child, though my imagination was stuffed full of tales of the frontier (Little House on the Prairie) and life in the Maritime Provinces (Anne of Green Gables), there was a part of me that could be reached only by […]

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Some Housekeeping

February 7, 2013

I drove past this sign on my way home from a rabbinic retreat. It completely hijacked the rest of my thoughts for the next twenty miles. My eyes searched the landscape, wondering how many had passed this very way, seeking asylum from oppression. I have some more thoughts about the Great Migration over at Rabbis […]

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