Feeding the Heart & Soul

Feeding the Heart & Soul

…Jewish tradition recognizes a meal as a time for intimacy, fellowship, and significant conversation… Because eating creates intimacy amongst people it creates opportunities for encounters of the intellect and the soul… Rabbi Yehiel E. Poupko I was blessed to experience the gift of an intimate table as a child. Then as an adult, my husband…

3 Ways to Ease Your Family Back Into School

3 Ways to Ease Your Family Back Into School

Transitions can be stressful, and one of the major transitions families face is when kids head back to school. Families tend to face many of the same difficulties when it comes to keeping a schedule on track. Here are three of them, with some tips that can help return order and efficiency to your family’s…

Journeying Towards Character

Journeying Towards Character

Character is one’s only real possession. Rabbi Israel Salanter In my work, there is a lot of conversation about goals in raising children and what people want their family to be like. Most of us want children who are happy, successful, and good people…but what does this mean? Each person and family defines it differently,…

Blessings, Teens and Wendy Mogel’s Advice

Blessings, Teens and Wendy Mogel’s Advice

These days, ours is a home of deep voices and driver’s licenses, responsible summer jobs, man-cave bedrooms, ear-bleedingly loud electric guitar and scant-on-inquiring-minds-want-to-know-details about socializing that is described only as “hanging out with people.” But even as I’ve seen one son off to college and the other at work on applications for his future destination,…

A Special Mitzvah Project

A Special Mitzvah Project

13-year-old Gabe Vinnick is a student at Pine Lake Middle School and celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at Herzl-Ner Tamid in February. We wanted to learn more about Gabe’s special mitzvah project that benefited the Polack Food Bank. What was your project? I used money I was given for my Bar Mitzvah to purchase food at…

A Day in the Life Of…

A Day in the Life Of…

…Emergency Services Case Manager Lauren Fabella 9:00 a.m.              Checking messages is always first on my list when I get into the office. JFS is a referral given by the 211 Crisis Clinic program, and the housing line I monitor from that referral source is critical. People calling the housing line are looking for shelter vouchers and…

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