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Faigy Eisenberg
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Hadasa Singer
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Esther Kurtz
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Chavie Berg
Kovna Rewrite
Stepping into the Moadon HaYehudi in Kaunas, Lithuania, feels like venturing up (down?) Penrose’s impossible staircase, stepping back in time while moving forward just the same. It’s been almost two years since we left, and we’re back as visiting lecturers.,Kovno Rewrite — Revisited,We’ve gone back in time in Lithuania
Esther Teichtal
Sunshine Season: Summer 2025
Everything I needed to know I learned on summer break
Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz
Sunshine Season: Summer 2025
Making the effort to meet people where they are doesn’t mean you aren’t being true to yourself 
Sandy Eller
Great Reads: Real Life
“It’s a message,” I told my husband. “I’m going to start covering my hair. Hashem wants to protect me”
Shari Cohn
Great Reads: Real Life
My children struggled terribly after my divorce  — and my oldest daughter struggled the most
Shoshana Gross
Off the Record
What brought Rav Yisrael Salanter to secularized Paris in his last years?
Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer
Off the Record
Everyone has their favorite songs, but have you ever wondered about the people who actually create their own music — the singers, composers, producers, lyricists?
Rochel Burstyn
Inside Job
What’s on the menu? Three seasoned professionals open up about what it’s like to feed the crowds from their kitchens
Rachel Bachrach
Inside Job
Three PAs on what they do, why they love it, and how, contrary to popular belief, being a PA is not second best to being a doctor
Rachel Bachrach
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I don’t have an important job or say enough Tehillim. I can’t host so many guests at once, and I’m an introvert, and I probably don’t smile enough

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He came to a Size 2. “Are you my bashert?” he said to the Size 2.

By Goldee Teller

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“Everyone is buying new shirts for the play!” says my nothing-if-not-persistent daughter

By Chashie Stern

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My mirror-self’s lips twitch, and then the woman looking back at me is laughing

By Esther Mandel

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I never imagined motherhood would take every single part of me, every last bit of myself I didn’t even know I possessed

By Emuna Stein