When my son, Nathan, was born 16 years ago, I was living in the city. Everyone I knew who had young children, even infants, was beginning to talk school. And it seemed like much of that school talk revolved around Jewish day schools. Jewish day schools were going to save the Jewish people. The stats […]
We all remember where we were, what we were doing. The day was clear and crisp, a perfect fall day in the New York area, until 8:46 a.m. when American Airline flight 11, hijacked by terrorists, crashed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower. Sixteen minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175 slammed into the South […]
I walked into the conference late, during a lunch session. A rabbi was speaking to an audience about his human rights work and how he disseminates it via blogging. The crowd, Jewish newspaper and magazine types, were someplace else, however. Yes, they were in the room. But all of them were engaged in some other […]
It should come as no surprise that I’d be into Purim in a big way. After all, my parents, having blessed me at birth with the fusty name of Marla Estelle, also bestowed upon me the incredibly unoriginal Hebrew moniker, Malka Esther. Yes, as in Queen Esther, heroine of the Purim story. So let’s just […]
