Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
November 26, 1998
When I was 16, my family picked up and moved from Santa Monica, where I had been born and raised, to Sacramento.
Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
Moses’ Musical, Poetic Ethical Will
October 1, 1998
Long ago, when I was just starting out as a teacher in religious school, I realized that singing a song was an easy and relatively painless way to learn important Jewish lessons about life.
Parenting by Example
September 3, 1998
I remember how amazed I was by the story. Tom and Pauline Nichter and their 11-year-old son, Jason, were on the nightly news, speaking with reporters from the police station.
Torah Portion
August 7, 1998
The remarkable thing about parenting is that it often seems as if so much of our children\’s development is out of our hands.
Torah Portion
July 2, 1998
I grew up the only boy in a family with three girls. Although this definitely didn\’t make me an expert on women, it did give me a firsthand knowledge of how women live.
Torah Portion
May 21, 1998
I grew up as a hyperactive child. Of course, noone ever called it that at the time. They didn\’t yet have suchclinical labels for every childhood behavioral challenge.
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