Lech Lecha has a strong start - a meaningful and impactful command from God to Avram. "Adonoy said to Avram, Go from your land, from your...

Noah is one of those parshas where you really feel like you know the story. I mean, we've heard children's songs ("God said to Noah,...

I have a few favorite books and I have read and re-read them, each time finding something new in the language or story, but even with my...

LA Story is one of those movies that I watched a LOT of times. It's not quite up there with Grease (1 or 2, really), or my all-time...

So, this is it - the final parsha of the Torah. We won't have a regular Shabbat when we read this parsha, since we read it on Simchat...

If you're just totally done with cooking after Rosh Hashanah....I hear you. For 2 of the last 3 days, I've spent the vast majority of my...

As part of the regular cycle of matching Torah readings to the number of Shabbatot available for regular readings in a year (which takes...

We've been eating a lot more fruit in the last few months. Partially that's because we're trying to add more fruits and veggies to our...

I enjoy the activity of thinking and planning menus for Rosh Hashanah. This year I started even earlier...I started the Sunday after we...

Our parsha this week has a long list of do's and don't's and they cover a wide range of topics. As we near the end of D'varim, Moshe has...

Today I was treated to a wonderful drash by a bar mitzvah boy, the son of two people are dear to us. It was an especially sweet moment of...

Parshat Re'eh is one of the parshiot most densely packed with halacha. As Moshe prepares the Israelites for their entry into Eretz...

When going through the parsha with a fine tooth comb, as I do when looking for inspiration for #parshainspiredmenus, I find new words,...

Perhaps it's because I've now been at camp for 3 weeks and it's so easy to get enmeshed in the world that is camp, but I found two things...

We know that inspiration comes from all kinds of places, but it's hard to be in all the places at once! So, since it's my goal to help...

I got ideas from a bunch of people this week to help come up with the menu for parsha-inspired menus. In part, it's because I was behind...

Don't get mad at me when I mention this, but Rosh Hashanah is not that far away. I hadn't noticed this in prior year readings of the...

Last week's parsha ended with a pretty dramatic moment when Pinchas takes a spear and stabbed Zimri and Cozbi in an act of zealotry to...

Perhaps you’ve heard the negotiating adsage that whoever speaks first, loses. What’s the reason for this wisdom? The first person to...

The story of Balak and Balaam has been a perpetual favorite among our kids. At first, they loved the talking donkey (I mean, that's...