Both a Personal and a Collective Gift and Obligation

We celebrate Shavuot this week; it's always been one of my favorite holidays. I love all of the dairy food associated with it — my grandmother made her own crepes for the blintzes! I got the recipe from her but I've never had the nerve to try and make them. She had the patience to pour out…

How Lucky We Are as a Jewish Community

So it’s May, and it’s a busy time. There are spring galas, tribute dinners and annual meetings for all of our local agencies and day schools, as well as the Annual UJA Benefit Concert this Wednesday night. I have to check and re-check my iCal (now you know exactly what kind of laptop I�…

There Is Something Connecting Us

I loved being a student at a liberal arts college. I loved that at some point in every semester my varied classes would be discussing similar ideas or approaches – no matter how disparate the topics might be. I always thought it meant that the world was connected in some manner that could …

The Bond of Remembrance

One of the things that ties Jews together all over the world, and which has always bound us as a people is our obedience to the commandment “Zachor” – to remember – to remember that we were all slaves in Egypt, to remember the widow and the orphan, and to remember the martyrs of our …

"Serve Immediately Does Not Apply"

Okay, a timeout from the world of Women’s Philanthropy and our travels to Cuba, our very exciting plans for Women’s Awareness Day and the Lion Lunch on April 30, and Spring Fling on April 15. Here’s what’s really happening on Leslie’s Laptop – the search for Passover recipes! It�…