In the wake of the Eaton Canyon Fire, the scale of loss was overwhelming—but so, too, has been the response. As the Jewish Federation of the Greater San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys’ Program and Community Outreach Director, I’ve had the privilege of working on the front lines of our comm…
I have realized that I am at an age when things sometimes seem to speed up. It’s as if time is moving faster, and the days and weeks go by quicker than they should. While I know this is scientifically false, I still feel it to be true. (Even though I cannot see you reading this week’s co…
When I was finishing up my undergrad degree, I didn’t sweat when people asked me the typically dreaded “what are you going to do after graduation?”, because I knew exactly what I wanted to do. In fact, I had already been working in my desired field since a week after I graduated high s…
One of my most vivid memories growing up, one I think about around this time, is being surrounded by family, sitting around my grandparents' dining room table as my grandfather led the Passover Seder. I don’t remember much about those seders or where my grandfather hid the afikomen (althou…
