Associated PressOctober 10, 2024
10min0
'It just feels like too much for our hearts to carry right now.'
Tag: Yom KippurImage via Carlton Ward Jr.
Associated PressOctober 10, 2024
Anne GeggisOctober 31, 2022
6min0
Antisemitic messages stir condemnation from both sides of the aisle.
Associated PressOctober 4, 2022
8min0
'Yom Kippur is about the fragility of life. If anything, we have seen with Ian how precarious life is.'
Associated PressSeptember 19, 2017
8min270
During Hurricane Irma, Temple Shalom served as a sanctuary of a different kind. When the storm changed course at the last minute, the Naples synagogue suddenly became an emergency shelter. As power stayed off for days, the Reform temple, which had only minimal damage, was a place for neighbors to escape the heat and have […]
Guest AuthorSeptember 24, 201510min238
“Oh father, maybe someday, when I look back I’ll be able to say you didn’t mean to be cruel…somebody hurt you, too.” If I can let the above quote settle in my mind, without cringing because it’s a Madonna lyric, so can you. An overwhelming number of friends and peers from my generation had absent […]
Guest AuthorOctober 2, 20145min158
Unfortunately, it’s a true story. Last week I was flying from D.C.’s Reagan National Airport to West Palm Beach on US Airways flight 1935, scheduled to depart at 3.15 p.m., changing planes in Philadelphia. Arrival in Palm Beach 8 p.m. I had high hopes for this journey since US Airways had just merged with American Airlines and […]
Guest AuthorSeptember 30, 20148min228
I converted to Judaism over 20 years ago. It had nothing to do with the fact that I was dating, and later married, a Jewish guy. Poor thing thought he was getting an Irish shiksa and instead wound up with his mother. No, my best girlfriend Julie took me to her synagogue so I could […]
Daniel TilsonSeptember 10, 20138min234
I woke up to the distant sound of television last Thursday morning, the first day of Rosh Hashanah, and headed to the family room to join my wife and daughter, figuring I’d find a Disney Channel show in progress. Instead, I was momentarily flummoxed to find them raptly wrapped up in the first 15 minutes […]