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Passover is a time to come together with family, friends and even strangers, to recall the Israelites’ slavery and ultimate escape (exodus) from Egypt. The seder itself is ripe with opportunity [...]

The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia has inspired countless visitors for generations. In the American psyche it represents much more than independence of the original thirteen colonies from Great [...]

Hopefully by now you know a little bit about Matan’s Dvar Torah Project. We are sharing a weekly dvar torah (word of torah) on this blog that links the parasha (torah portion) to disability [...]

  This summer, my family took an eight-hour tour of Yellowstone National Park. We saw flora and fauna, smelled sulfur coming from geysers, got rained on, took many photos and heard more [...]

The following post, written by Meredith Polsky, originally ran on the New Normal Blog. If you have been following The New Normal, or mainstream media, or even happened to do a web search on July [...]

At the end of May, I attended the National Ramah Spring Staff Training Institute at Camp Ramah in New England as a representative of Ramah Day Camp in Nyack. I participated in a specialized [...]

The original version of this article was posted in GLEANINGS: Dialogue on Jewish Education from The Davidson School of the Jewish Theological Seminary. We Are the First Responders We educators [...]

The following is an excerpt from a stunning sermon written by Rabbi Rachel Ackerman, Director of Education at Temple Shalom in Chevy Chase, Maryland and a participant in the DC Cohort of the [...]

The following post by Shelley Cohen originally ran on Zeh Lezeh, the blog of the Ruderman Family Foundation. “Hi.” What a significant little word. I have been saying hi to this young woman for [...]

A package arrived today…10 copies of the 2012-2013 Slingshot Guide – the Zagat-like guide to the 50 most innovative non-profits in the Jewish community.  On page 31 is the most [...]