I used to dream of getting married and becoming a mother. And as one of four kids, I always wanted four of my own children.

A Dreidel ’Round Your Wrist In a rainbow of colors and designs—from the alef-bet to Noah’s Ark and its pairs of animals—Biblical Bandz are sweeping the tween-to-teen

At the elite Prozdor Hebrew High School in New York, I asked a class of 20 students—the cream of the Conservative movement’s crop—how many of

In the season of atonement, what is our soul’s aspiration? How do we understand the responsibility of return, the task of teshuva with which we have

We were going on vacation—me and Eliana, my 18-year-old daughter, and my friend Shira and her 18-year-old daughter, Ruthie. It would be a gift to

In a renowned biblical love-triangle, a destitute widow cares for her equally destitute mother-in-law, and an elderly rich man falls in love with the daughter

The Book of Ruth, viewed by Goethe as the most beautiful “little whole” in the Hebrew Bible, is the special reading for Shavuot, which begins

The desire to serve his country developed early in this Conservative rabbi, the Navy and Marine Corps’ highest-ranking Jewish chaplain. Not many bar mitzva boys know