Guest Bloggers

Written by Rabbi Faith Friedman Cantor Originally published on her blog, “Musings: A Little Bit of Everything,” February 24, 2012 I thank God every day. I am blessed with an amazing [...]

Though I was an English literature major in college, I concentrated the bulk of my credits on the study of film. I have always felt that film was the modern equivalent to literature insofar as a [...]

In my family we like to say we spell our last name with the Jewish spelling. My husband became a Jew by choice after 18 years of marriage (my parents finally got that Jewish son-in-law)! We [...]

Various communities have run disability awareness programs for a number of years.  However, in 2009 the idea of creating a month in which these programs could be united into a national Jewish [...]

Written by Susan Wiener, Westchester Reform Temple, Chair, Inclusion Task Force This post originally appeared on the Union for Reform Judaism blog. I can still remember the day, my daughter [...]

On November 5th, 2011, students from Matan’s Shaare Torah program in Gaithersburg, Maryland came together with staff from Camp Ramah in New England’s Tikvah program. The Tikvah [...]

“Okay, here I go!” our son Mickey said. He stood at the bimah, beaming a mega-watt smile at the fifty gathered friends and relatives who had come to celebrate this bar mitzvah day with him. He [...]

I’ve had the privilege of being involved with Matan since 2001.  Since that time, the organization has changed its tagline multiple times. It began as Matan: the Gift of Jewish learning for [...]

My name is Jacob Artson and I am a person just like you.  I am part of a wonderful Jewish family, I go to our local public high school where I am in regular English and social studies classes, I [...]

Rockmitzvah was really an accident… an accident waiting to happen.  One late evening four years ago, Marc Jacoby was scouring the Craigslist Community pages and fell upon a family in search of a [...]