The first night of Hanukah was last night. Our family tradition (which I followed strictly as a Jewish child growing up in the suburbs and dutifully passed onto my boys) is to light the candles after dinner and then run, screaming in anticipation to the family room sofa, where you sit very close together with [...]
There comes a time in every Jewish parent’s life when your children ask you if they can become Christian. Just this once? Pleeeeeeeeeease? I had this conversation with Noah over the weekend. Noah: Mom, do you think one year we could do the whole Christmas thing? Me: Do you mean like doing the Jesus thing? [...]
‘Tis the season to wrack my brains for holiday gifts ideas. When it comes to giving that perfect something to that perfect someone, I am neither creative nor crafty which makes me feel rather inferior to the bakers, scrapbookers, knitters, basket weavers and photogs. A fair warning to my future friends and loved ones: You [...]
