Amy Grossblatt Pessah
By Amy Grossblatt Pessah
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Community Why do we commemorate times of destruction?
All of this heaviness that we, as Americans, have been feeling in recent months is exacerbated by where we, as Jews, find ourselves in the calendar year. As we enter the heat of summer, we land in the scorching energy of two Jewish commemorations: The Seventeenth of Tammuz and Tisha B’Av (the 9th of Av)….
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Life The secret to parenting during a pandemic
Join us April 2 for our live panel discussion, “Parenting in a Pandemic: Home-schooling, canceled B’nei mitzvah and what will happen to camp? Before I became a parent, I had decided that I would not be a short order-cook, catering to everyone’s whims and desires. I would only prepare one meal for dinner — I…
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