By Shelley Hubal
Is it possible to do something simple and have the impact be profound? The answer is, yes. Recently, the students at Hillel Academy did exactly that.
These young students created beautiful, cheerful Rosh Hashanah cards for Jewish Family Service. These special cards – de…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
I thought about opening this column with an inflammatory statement, but decided that would get me into trouble, even though I planned to explain why I didn’t really believe that statement a sentence or two later. In fact, I was trying to avoid this whole discussio…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
“Religious freedom is the right to hold, practice, and express religious beliefs without government interference or coercion, and is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which has two main clauses: the Establishment Clause (no government esta…
By Bill Simons
The Reporter recently published a letter by Rhonda Levine and Arieh Ullmann notable for its eloquent passion and urgency. Undeterred by accusations of disloyalty, Levine and Ullmann exhort American Jews to confront the carnage in Gaza, as well as West Bank expansionism. They …
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Man plans and God laughs. That Yiddish expression accurately describes major portions of my life. Sometimes it’s a major life event that doesn’t work as expected; other times it’s a small thing. Fortunately, the latest example from my life falls into the latter …
