For many people, this past Sunday, as family and friends gathered to celebrate America’s unofficial holiday… Super Bowl Sunday, many people were rooting not for a team but rather for the commercials. The spectacle of the Super Bowl, with over 130 million sets of eyes watching, continues …
I grew up Jewish in Los Angeles, surrounded by books and by the voices of adults who believed that reading together mattered. Some of my earliest sensory memories are of my parents reading to me, and one story that always stuck out was Simms Taback’s Joseph Had a Little Overcoat. I can sti…
This past Saturday, January 24, our Jewish Federation brought the community came together for our 8th Annual Every Person Has a Name – our 25-hour Holocaust Commemoration and Vigil, supported once again by the City of Pasadena.
Like we have done in the past, we returned back to the steps…
I grew up Jewish, but for much of my early life, I didn’t feel a personal connection to my heritage. That all began to change when my son was born. Our babysitter at the time was the cantor's wife, and I made a promise to them that I would raise my son Jewish. At the time, I wasn’t e…
One of the many things I love about Judaism is our traditions. We seem to have “something” for every occasion. I’ve been reflecting on this as we approach the one-year anniversary of the Eaton and Palisades Fires that forever changed not just the landscape of Southern California but th…
