Starter Stories for High Holidays
For all of my friends, colleagues, and clients who will be sharing wisdom over the High Holidays, perhaps some of these stories, quotes,...
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tagoodquestions
- Aug 27, 2023
- 1 min
Holiday-Inspired Menu - Rosh Hashanah 2023
Each year around this time I make the menu plans for our Rosh Hashanah celebrations and it's always important to me to include some of...
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tagoodquestions
- Aug 24, 2023
- 2 min
Parsha-Inspired Menus - Ki Teitzei
One of the things I find meaningful and valuable in the Torah text from this week are the commandments that give the Israelites guidance...
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tagoodquestions
- Aug 23, 2023
- 1 min
More Wisdom from BPTD (Big Panda, Tiny Dragon)
For the last month, camp was my home base and at each staff meeting we would start with a page from Big Panda, Tiny Dragon by James...
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tagoodquestions
- Aug 17, 2023
- 2 min
Parsha-Inspired Menus - Shoftim
This summer I had the privilege of learning from Rabbi Gordon Tucker. He comes to teach at Camp Ramah and then even after he left camp he...
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tagoodquestions
- Aug 15, 2023
- 1 min
Emerge anew!
For those of us in the Northeast, our summer is winding to an end and I know for my friends who live further south and west kids are back...
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tagoodquestions
- Aug 10, 2023
- 2 min
Parsha-Inspired Menus - Re'eh
This week's Dvarim review of things previously shared with the Israelites covers information about the Temple and what should be...
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tagoodquestions
- Aug 4, 2023
- 2 min
Parsha-Inspired Menus - Eikev
I almost took the easy road and was going to recycle some menu ideas from previous weeks. I mean, Moshe is reviewing a lot of the same...
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tagoodquestions
- Aug 2, 2023
- 1 min
Orangeberry & Raspfruit - Digging a Little Deeper
Yesterday I took myself to the Botanical Gardens on the campus of Smith College. It was a beautiful day and loved walking among the...
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tagoodquestions
- Jul 27, 2023
- 2 min
Parsha-Inspired Menus - Va'etchanan
As we read further into the book of Devarim, we continue to hear Moshe's recounting of the history and travels of the Israelites since...
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tagoodquestions
- Jul 26, 2023
- 2 min
Helping Others, Helping yourself
I was recently introduced to the book Big Panda, Tiny Dragon by James Norbury. The summary, as described by Amazon, is "Big Panda and...
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tagoodquestions
- Jul 21, 2023
- 2 min
Parsha-Inspired Menus - Devarim
We were recently discussing the movies of The Godfather Parts 1 and 2 (and generally agreed that Part 3 wasn't worth watching.) A friend...
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tagoodquestions
- Jul 18, 2023
- 2 min
"The Scully Effect" and finding role models
What I'm about to share isn't actually recent news, but I just learned about it, so maybe you never heard of it either and I think it's...
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tagoodquestions
- Jul 13, 2023
- 2 min
Parsha-Inspired Menus - Mattot-Masei
This week's parsha-inspired menu has both a pretty literal choice and more interpretative. So, what's on the menu? Steak, zucchini...
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tagoodquestions
- Jul 6, 2023
- 2 min
Parsha-Inspired Menus - Pinchas
This week's parsha has two sections that seem kind of list-like. The first is the census of the Israelite people and the second is the...
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tagoodquestions
- Jul 6, 2023
- 1 min
The Opposite of Trigger
I don't understand the Facebook algorithm. I've heard some things that may be true, such as a post with a photo is likely to get eyes on...
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tagoodquestions
- Jun 30, 2023
- 2 min
Parsha-Inspired Menus - Hukkat-Balak
This week we have the double parsha of Hukkat and Balak. Balak happens to be one of our boys' favorite parshiot. They're pretty big fans...
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tagoodquestions
- Jun 29, 2023
- 2 min
Advice for Clergy - Advice for All of Us
I recently published a piece aimed at rabbis and cantors and really any Jewish communal professional. As I said in the piece "The...
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tagoodquestions
- Jun 23, 2023
- 2 min
Parsha-Inspired Menus (sort of) - Shelach Lecha & Korah
Our family has a lot of smachot in June. It's really been a whirlwind of wonderful. It's also meant that I'm not in some of my regular...
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tagoodquestions
- Jun 20, 2023
- 2 min
"Embrace The Hot Mess"
A friend of mine recently posted on Facebook encouraging those of us with children in some form of life transition moment (which is...
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