Passover is past, Bread is back! But we don’t take a pause in the month of April. The Month of April on the Jewish Calendar April is a whirlwind. No sooner does Passover end, than Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day is upon us. Yom Hashoah begins April 14 at sunset. Here’s a list of events taking place in the Bay…
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Passover is LITERALLY a week away. So let’s consider the issues you may be dealing with. You have nowhere to go for Passover and you feel awkward asking to be included. I couldn’t sympathize more! You are not alone; a number of people have brought this up to me. It’s even happened to me. So…
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How “good” a Dad are you? For years I have offered a program, Women in Interfaith Relationships. Women, Jewish or not, are the gender that is typically most comfortable with emotions. They are more likely to express vulnerability, to cry, and to comfort each other. But that does leave men out in the cold, without…
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Growing up I went to seven different schools – including two high schools. My parents moved a lot. I realized as an adult that I wasn’t really clear on how to create community. But after college I was determined to have what I saw so many others having – a wide circle of friends, acquaintances,…
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The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament in Christian terminology) is often called a dark and vengeful text. One of the most commonly quoted sentences that ‘proves’ this is the one Rabbi Milder is talking about below, Mishpatim. This is another example how many people read the Torah on the simplest level, Peshat. That is, they read…
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A discussion for husbands, boyfriends, partners, fathers and grandfathers Join other men, Jewish or not, to examine interfaith relationships in relation to culture and gender. What are the unique expectations and responses that a man encounters as he creates a home and builds a family life in which his religion is not that of his…
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