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A sincere thank you to all who helped in our Pesach preparations. 

Thanks to Alison Band and Jared Black for shopping and, along with Anne Cohen DePalma, for kashering our kitchen.

Thanks, also, to a great team that cooked for many hours yesterday! Led by Stacey Severn (far left in last picture)...and her sous chefs, Tammy Kahn, Lindsey Caplan, and Lauren Esposito, they made some very...Read more...

Like many of us, I was taken by William Shatner's brief journey into space this week. I was never a big fan of Star Trek, but I have always found Shatner an endearing man – one who seems to exude an innate joyfulness and the admirable quality of not taking himself too seriously. But his reaction to going...Read more...

Judaism is not a religion. It’s a nationality.

That statement will come as a shock to many of you. On all those forms we fill out, Jewish is the word we write in the blank next to the word “Religion.” And in the blank next to...Read more...

November 9, 1938 is known as Kristallnacht - the night of broken glass; a massive pogrom through Germany in which Jewish homes, hospitals, schools, synagogues and businesses were ransacked and destroyed by the Nazi party’s paramilitary force, the SA. Hundreds of Jews were...Read more...

“Save me, God; for the waters are come in even unto the soul. I am sunk in deep mire, where there is no standing…let not the flood water overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up."

Those words are from the 69th Psalm, attributed to King David. But we are taught...Read more...