by Webmaster | Sep 12, 2022 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
Lauren Monaco Grossman is an artist and cook who brings her talents to bear as expressions of her identity on her website Minty’s Table. Her challah postcards would make the perfect Rosh Hashanah hostess gift or share her greeting cards as you send wishes for a...
by Webmaster | Jun 22, 2022 | Holidays, Identity
On Friday June 17th, 2022, Be’chol Lashon marked Juneteenth and welcomed Shabbat. In conjunction with Marlene Meyerson Jewish Community Center Manhattan, Keshet, and the JCRC of New York, we came together on a rooftop in Manhattan. Rabbi Isaama Goldstein-Stoll led the...
by Webmaster | Jun 21, 2022 | Holidays, Identity, Jewish Ritual
“What are we going to do for Juneteenth this year?” was the question on the table. In 2021, I’d participated in a panel discussion that developed out of one of the initiatives through the United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) and the Rabbinical Assembly to...
by Webmaster | May 16, 2022 | Holidays, Identity
In 2003, the Israeli government designated the 28th of Iyar, Jerusalem Day (May 29, 2022), as the official day of remembrance for Ethiopian Jews who could not fulfill their dream of returning to Jerusalem. In the 1980s, many Ethiopian Jews tried to make this dream a...
by Webmaster | Apr 19, 2022 | Holidays, Identity
When the pandemic hit, my mom was struggling. Like so many elders, she was isolated at home, lonely and worried. My mom will celebrate her 85th birthday this coming July. She lives in Israel in a moshav (village), and while she needs some help around the house, she is...
by Webmaster | Apr 19, 2022 | 'Stories About...' in Homepage, Holidays, Identity, Jewish Ritual
When my husband and I decided not to have a third child, I shared an important Mimouna Kinberg family teaching with him. Mimouna (pronounced mee-moon-ah) is the Moroccan Jewish daylong festival celebrating the end of Passover and the possibilities ahead of us in our...
