Coming Home For a Good Cry

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 14, 2012

Overcoming my homesickness…

By Julia Bendis
Published on October 18, 2011

Youth Football and the big dilemma

By Julia Bendis
Published on October 10, 2011

Boys and their animal instincts

By Julia Bendis
Published on September 5, 2011

Grandma and My Poor Kitten…

By Julia Bendis
Published on August 9, 2011

Oh Carnival Cruise Line, how I wish you’d step up to the rest of them…

By Julia Bendis
Published on July 18, 2011

Supermarket Memories…

By Julia Bendis
Published on July 9, 2011

Summer Rules are not meant to be followed, at least in my house…

By Julia Bendis
Published on July 6, 2011

Voicemail and My Father’s Outgoing Message…

By Julia Bendis
Published on July 2, 2011

Ghosts, Spirits and My Kids’ Wild Imagination…

By Julia Bendis
Published on June 23, 2011

Chivalry is Dead!

By Julia Bendis
Published on June 16, 2011

What’s an Expiration Date?

By Julia Bendis
Published on May 27, 2011

Breast is Best - Give me a Break!

By Julia Bendis
Published on May 12, 2011

Amy Chua a.k.a The Tiger Mother Got It Right!

By Julia Bendis
Published on May 3, 2011

We got Apples and Oranges and Pears, Oh My!

By Julia Bendis
Published on April 28, 2011

A Soviet Passover…

By Julia Bendis
Published on April 18, 2011

Oh Jared Leto, how little I knew about your band…

By Julia Bendis
Published on April 11, 2011

Pet Rescue or a Scam?

By Julia Bendis
Published on April 4, 2011

Home buying options according to a Kindergartner!

By Julia Bendis
Published on March 24, 2011

Brothers reunite with hidden ‘sister’ after 65 years

Published on March 23, 2011

During a teary-eyed meeting in Wellington, New Zealand, on Tuesday, 70-year-old Elli Mantegari met members of the family who hid her for almost two years in Nazi-occupied Holland. The reunion brings an end to a search that has lasted 65 years.

Sister Wives, Polygamy, not too bad of an idea…

By Julia Bendis
Published on March 14, 2011

Is Matchmaking a Mitzvah and how many are supposed to accomplish in our lifetime?

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 28, 2011

Valentine’s Day Peep Show!

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 14, 2011

Super Bowl XLV

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 8, 2011

My Interview with the Department of Homeland Security!

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 1, 2011

Trick or Trick

By Julia Bendis
Published on January 28, 2011

Very random thoughts…

By Julia Bendis
Published on January 21, 2011

Ohio sports and my Marriage vows

By Julia Bendis
Published on January 6, 2011

Color Me Mine and Boys

By Julia Bendis
Published on December 22, 2010

Rahm Emanuel is a fighting policy wonk with a Jewish soul [VIDEO]

By Ron Kampeas
Published on November 13, 2008

One thing Rahm Emanuel is not, all agree, is the president-elect's conciliatory signal to the Jewish community after a campaign fraught with worries that Obama would tip toward even-handedness in dealing with the Middle East

Beauty can arise from tragedy

Published on September 24, 2008

As the events unfolded, it was a story that could only be measured against the biblical account of Job. It was everyone's worst nightmare.

Obituaries

Published on January 11, 2007

Obituaries.

Obituaries

Published on October 19, 2006

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Obituaries

Published on October 12, 2006

Obituaries.

It’s mayor meets mayor at Temple of the Arts; Women of vision see Jews’ future in Iran

Published on October 5, 2006

Community Briefs.

Obituaries

Published on September 21, 2006

Obituaries.

Obituaries

Published on May 18, 2006

Obituaries.

Obituaries

Published on April 27, 2006

Obituaries.

Out of the Shadows

By Rabbi Karen Deitsch
Published on December 15, 2005

Darkness is frightening. It is the realm of uncertainty, with everything enveloped in a state of unified oblivion. The world we call "real" -- based on substance, physical existence and visible actuality -- is nullified by the blackness of night.

Obituaries

Published on November 10, 2005

Obituaries.

In Death, Still Not Parting

By Soriya Daniels
Published on April 7, 2005

How often do we let feuds linger on believing that we have so much more time left on this earth?

Obituaries

Published on October 28, 2004

Obituaries

Obituaries

Published on October 14, 2004

Obituaries.

Brotherly Love

By Yehuda Lev
Published on October 3, 2002

Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, in the early afternoon, I visit my younger brother at his nursing home, a mile from my home in Providence, R.I.

Muslim Messages

By Tom Tugend
Published on February 28, 2002

Amid the profusion of billboards along Southern California freeways, motorists are being startled by a new one. It features seven smiling faces of various ethnicities, with one, a woman wearing a black headscarf, holding a small American flag.

Sibling Rivalry

By Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
Published on December 14, 2000

I have three sisters, two older and one younger. My youngest sister, Debbie, was born when I was 8 years old. In the months leading up to her birth, I remember clearly the anxiety I felt over the possibility that it might turn out to be a boy and I might end up with a brother.

Where the Heart Is

By Teresa Strasser
Published on November 30, 2000

It's a familiar story. Kids grow up, parents sell the family home and move to some sunnier climate, some condo somewhere, some smaller abode.

Jewish Journeys

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on September 9, 1999

Joshua Hammer's book is called "Chosen by God: A Brother's Journey" (Hyperion Press), and while the titular journey refers to his brother, it may very well apply to Hammer himself.

My Brother’s Keeper

By Yehuda Lev
Published on May 27, 1999

My brother, who at 70 is younger than me by two years, has a world-class collection of the mysteries of Agatha Christie and a complete set of the novels of Anthony Trollope. They are being joined, gradually, by the Greek historians and Galsworthy's Forsythe Saga.