Summer Camp Offers a Break for Campers and Staff Alike
Julia Melo
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, children (and people in general) already spent hours a day at their desks. This solitary lifestyle has...
Enjoying Passover Seder with a Mixed Crowd
Putting together a Passover seder is perhaps challenging enough, but add to that the bustle of modern life, working families, children being shuttled from...
Keeping the Kids Engaged
Friday at sunset marks the first night of Pesach. Each year, Jewish communities in Baltimore and around the world remember and celebrate the Exodus,...
Chesed Starts At Home
Some people find performing chesed, kindness, an easy task.
As Jews, we perform chesed for people in the following order: 1.people who are closest to...
Nurturing Spirituality
We have just returned home after the wedding of our youngest. There is this rare sense of completion, seeing all our children launched on...
Better To Give
A meshulach (Jewish charity collector) visited our home late one summer night. A window was open so he knocked at the screen. Heschel, our...
Let Them Eat Cheerios
This Year marks my son’s third Thanksgiving and third Chanukah. It is also the first time the holidays have coincided since 1861. The fact...
Date Night
What is the key to marriage? The answer, according to John Mordecai Gottman, a professor emeritus in psychology who is known for his work...
Ask Mesila
Q: True or false? It is dangerous to encourage people to live with a strict budget. Recording every penny and constantly staying within a...
What Is Love?
We say “I love you” or “I love (fill in the blank)” so casually in our everyday lives that it becomes empty and insignificant....
