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We’re in the middle of my favorite holiday, Sukkot. Our tradition calls it Zman Simchateinu, the season of our joy. We always manage to get our sukkah up in time…it’s getting it down before [...]

So many of our favorite customs and traditions (religious or otherwise) involve food and eating.  I am always mesmerized by the memory that certain smells from the kitchen can incite in me.  My [...]

How did you celebrate Rosh Hashanah this week? Were you able to gather together with family, pray together with congregants, or was it another holiday by Zoom? My family joined Congregation Beth [...]

When I was a kid, I always wished I had a nickname: a cute tomboyish name, like Henri or Syd; or one with a funny story of a sibling who couldn’t say my name, or something idiosyncratic like [...]