Go Ahead, Eat Chocolate
February 5, 2025
Now that it’s National Chocolate Month, it’s a good time for everyone to make sure their relationship with chocolate is robust and at least 65% pure cacao.
Judy Gruen
Home Is More than an Address
January 22, 2025
Yes, home is physical, but even more so it is emotional, spiritual, a place that grounds us psychologically.
Saved by a Mitzvah
January 1, 2025
Today, it’s too easy to suspect good people of bad intentions, while defaulting to judging ourselves with heaping loads of favoritism.
‘The Heroes of October 7th’ Presents Stories of Strength and Resilience for Children
December 19, 2024
These stories, each only two pages long and accompanied by child-friendly illustrations, feature a wide array of heroes.
Black Friday Never Ends
December 5, 2024
For weeks we’ve been barraged with relentless Black Friday sales pitches from every single business or organization that has captured our email addresses and there’s no end in sight.
I Tried to Grow My Own Vegetables but Threw in the Trowel
November 20, 2024
A few years ago I had the madcap idea of planting an organic garden in my backyard.
Against All Odds: ‘Eight People We Met on the Way Home’ Offers Concise Look at Founders of Modern Zionism
November 20, 2024
As Rabbi Berel Wein writes in his new book, “Eight People We Met on the Way Home,” “against all odds and against all opinions of pundits from every section of Jewish society,” Jews began to reclaim and resettle the land.
Natan Sharansky: We Are Never Alone
November 12, 2024
During a swing through California with the organization Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM), Natan Sharansky addressed a private group of donors at a breakfast sponsored by the Jewish Community Foundation, the largest manager of charitable assets for Jewish philanthropists in Greater Los Angeles.
The Kids Are Alright; Grandparents Are Recovering
November 5, 2024
We can’t wait to see our out-of-state kids and grandkids again, but I’m still in recovery mode here.
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