As our 11 year old often says, "The Torah is stingy with words" so when there is a repetition, we know that it's highlighting something...

As you may know, there’s a day for almost everything you can imagine. In just the first week of January you’ll find National Bloody Mary...

This parsha is filled with (sometimes very detailed) laws and rules to help the Israelites create a society. Coming out of slavery they...

In 1964 President Johnson issued a proclamation marking February as American Heart Month. The goal was to get Americans to pay attention...

In this parsha we will read the Aseret HaDibrot, usually translated as Ten Commandments, though 10 Utterances is more accurate. I find it...

When the residents of the Kibbutzim around Gaza came out of their safe rooms, those who were fortunate enough to do so, most after hours...

Almost from the moment I stepped off the plane in Israel, there were reminders of the hostages - a display of the silver dog tags many...

This is the first parsha with a Parsha Inspired Menus post from last year (I was doing the project for longer, but I wasn't blogging...

Today our Israel Volunteer and Solidarity Mission went to visit the Nova Music Festival Memorial. This memorial was first set up in...

There’s something very powerful about counting. We use counting in a whole variety of ways… Counting down to something that we’re excited...

This week some of the ingredients are mixing together from different parts of the parsha, so rather than share the idea and then the...

Much of this week's parsha will sound familiar since this week (and next) cover the heart of the Passover story. While one year at seder...

With the move into Shemot, we move away from the stories of our patriarchs and Joseph and solidly into Moshe and Egypt. For this week's...

I am biased. In fact, pretty much we all are. Some biases we are aware of, but many are unconscious. As I sit here at the very tail end...

You've probably heard it said that "translation is commentary." Exactly how someone translates one language into another often reveals...

This week we get the big finale of the Joseph story - Joseph's dramatic reavel to his brothers, Jacob learning his son is alive and...

Chanukah may be over by the time we light candles on Friday night, but I want to extend the Chanukah feel for one more night with our...

This past Shabbat I was perusing the paper (yeah for the Sunday sections that come on Saturday) and was greeted by a full page image of...

While this parsha is chock-full of memorable stories, not all of them are ones I want to honor with food, so I got creative. The first...

I was recently working with a Coaching client and we were discussing how her plans to relax fell through. She was supposed to go away...