For years I looked everywhere but synagogue for spiritual fulfillment. I found the “stuff” associated with it–politics, egos, et al–to be a turn-off. Services seemed rote and uninspiring. A solitary walk on a serene, lakeside […]
I know that Facebook loves visuals. There is no visual for this post … This month, I am launching a search for anything and anyone related to my maternal grandfather, Michael Berl, who died in […]
Just when you thought that today’s screen distractions would put a stamp of finality to the end of the reading era—even for the “people of the book”—a resurgence and blossoming of Jewish content, both in […]
Standing on the shoreline at Ocean City, Maryland, cool sand brushing against my feet, the ocean currents soothing my senses, I contemplated the wonder of nature. I was alone on this cold, late March morning, […]
Angry at The World: Asking Why and How Did The Holocaust Happen? In my sheltered, comfortable suburban Detroit childhood, I shouldn’t have been so angry. Neighbors looked a lot like my family: white, Jewish, middle […]
