By Reporter staff
A variety of Jewish groups are offering educational and recreational online resources. Below is a sampling of those. The Reporter will publish additional listings as they become available.
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute has announced its next Sandra Seltzer Silberm…
By Bill Simons
Hanukkah lacks the centrality and solemnity of the High Holidays. It remains a rather minor holiday in the traditional Jewish calendar – except in the United States. The dominant Hanukkah experience for most Jewish Americans is robust, exuberant and external, rather than re…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
The 1980s was a period of upheaval, particularly for women, because it seemed two distinct paths were open: one, the traditional path for women to marry and have children and, the second, a career, sometimes in fields that previously had rarely included women. Two …
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
When researching a prominent family’s history, what particular aspects of their lives should a historian explore? That depends, of course, on a researcher/writer’s particular interest, although in the past that focus was often limited. For example, politics and…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
When I was a child, there was only one food option for Hanukkah: latkes. They were the only fried food we ate during the holiday. It wasn’t until I was a teenager (or maybe even later) that I first heard of sufganiyot. What exactly are sufganiyot? Most of the one…
