Rachel Mann is the author of the young adult novel, On Blackberry Hill. More info at her website.
Rachel Mann
By Rachel Mann
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Community What To Do When Your Child Shames Hillary for Staying With Bill
My 13-year-old daughter came to me asking for help. Her classmates were claiming that “it was awful of Hillary and a bad influence on girls” (my daughter’s words) for Hillary to have stayed in her marriage after Bill cheated on her. “Hillary is always talking about women’s rights, but she doesn’t show it; she should…
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Community Running on Camp Time
Between the ages of nine and twenty-one, I spent ten summers living on ‘camp time.’ On the first evening of every camp summer, staff and campers would reset their watches in a private daylight-savings plan. By shifting the time back by an hour, Shabbat would end at a reasonable time in the summer for small…
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