11/25/2022 Every early morning, for as long as I can remember, I have started my day at 5:00am and gone either to the gym or taken a long...

11/18/2022 Growing up, I do not remember birthdays as being any kind of big deal. It’s kind of strange as we were a “survivor'' family of...

11/11/2022 As part of professional development, this week, all faculty participated in a workshop on dealing with trauma and stress. The...

11/04/2022 One of the most magnificent celebrations that a Jewish person can participate in is the dedication of a Sefer Torah, to the...

10/28/2022 This is a story about a mouse, a house, a Rabbi and a friendship. Mice are small creatures that are basically harmless; I...

10/21/2022 This week, we pressed the reset button on the year. Luckily, we were able to do some good work before the chaggim, but...

10/14/2022 Every Sukkot from the time our daughter Meredith married her Canadian husband Jonathan, we have spent this chag with them and...

07/10/2022 For many years, we davened with an incredible yomim noraim minyan at DRS, Davis Renov Stahler High School. Two things made it...

09/30/2022 Spending time in a doctor’s Waiting Room makes everybody I know, even my very patient husband, crazy. For reasons that I have...

09/23/2022 Over three billion people got up at whatever time it was in their time zone, to witness or watch in real time, the funeral of...

09/16/2022 My “time” perspective on the school year days is one of ebb and flow; from August through the chaggim it’s intense. The...

09/09/2022 Coming home from a wedding late last night, we had a blowout flat tire. This is the second flat tire in two weeks for my...

09/02/2022 Sitting in my office listening to the busy sounds of getting ready to start school, I am wondering where the summer went. Yet,...

08/26/2022 Some things you can’t make up. Was not planning to write a part 2 to last week’s reflections, but sometimes things just seem...

08/19/2022 My summer takeaways are “Savor the Good Times!” and “Don’t sweat the small stuff”. These past seven weeks have been an...

08/12/2022 Going into the summer, I needed to sort of compartmentalize the different parts: Israel, the wedding and after. Today, I am in...

07/29/2022 Growing up in small apartments in Brooklyn after the war, first Williamsburg and then Crown Heights, our family of 5 did not...

07/22/2022 Still here and savoring every second. Every day, we log more than 10,000 steps walking on these ancient streets. I have to...

07/15/2022 This is about food, love and Anyu. Growing up in the home of Holocaust Survivors, Bob and I always understood that food was...

07/08/2022 Only in Israel. We have been here a week and the days are beginning to blend into each other. It always begins with a long...