I don’t like it when the High Holy Days come so early. I always feel like I don’t have enough time to prepare my spirit for all that is to come, and I’m still in summer mode! Perhaps you are thinking the same way.  But as I was thinking about...

This week, like so many parents across the country, we are dropping one of our children off at college. Noa will become a freshman at Adelphi University in New York. She is smart, creative and brave. She is ready. Arguably, she’s more than ready. As for her parents, we are convincing ourselves...

It feels really good to let go—until it doesn’t. As we begin turning toward the New Year, we have the opportunity to think about what we want to let go of: mistakes, decisions, hurts, expectations, and the things we simply don’t want to carry with us anymore. It is easy...

Yesterday our middle son Elijah returned from six weeks in Israel. It was early in the morning when we picked him up but he was full of life and ready to talk my ear off about his life-changing trip. He told me about Shabbat in Jerusalem, hiking up Masada at...