Opening to Opportunity by Cantor Mary Rebecca Thomas
I realize that I’m seven years late to the party, but I’m FINALLY reading Malcolm Gladwell’s national bestseller, Outliers: The Story of Success, per a
I realize that I’m seven years late to the party, but I’m FINALLY reading Malcolm Gladwell’s national bestseller, Outliers: The Story of Success, per a
This morning, a voice on my radio said, “Just remember, one-size-fits-all really means one-size-fits-none.” This is the truth. If one-size-fits-all is supposed to mean, “one-size-will-sufficienty-cover-you-while-making-you-look-absolutely-atrocious,”
I recently came across this 2012 New York Times Magazine article about places called Blue Zones, were people have remarkable longevity and relatively little disease.
In this and last week’s Torah portion, (yes! The same Torah portion two weeks in a row! Read more about that here) we have the
Halachma anya di achalu avhatana b’ar’ah d’mitzrayim. Kol dichfin yeitei v’yeichalu. “This is the bread of affliction, the poor bread, which our ancestors ate in
I’m writing today from a cozy spot in the heart of Manhattan. Several times a year, I make a one or two day pilgrimage to
A friend of ours is getting ready to light Chanukah candles for the first time this year (two friends, actually, but only one is local).
I discovered several months ago that I am a card-carrying GYPSY with flowering lawns and prancing unicorns. [More about GYPSYs – Generation Y Protagonists and
Several weeks ago, our Torah portions taught us the laws of the Sabbatical year and the sort of super-Sabbatical, the Jubilee year. During these special
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