Chai Notes

I'm not the activist type.  As much as I'm often told I'd have been a hippie had I been born in an earlier generation, I am not ...

So, that article I posted ...  To me, in part, it sums up as "we are responsible for the upkeep of the world".  It's a familia...

The following article was presented as a reading for Tisha B'Av services at Congregation Beth Shalom.  I found it an interesting read, a...

At the end of the Seder, we all sing "l'Shana Haba B'Yrushalayim", next year in Jerusalem. As a child, it was explained t...

I have a really interesting backyard.  There is the house, then a wide stripe of open grass we've often referred to as our soccer field,...

Welcome! Just so you know, I'm in the process of transferring older posts from two separate, now defunct, discussion groups to my blog...

Just a note about the format of these posts.  I am going to talk from the perspective that your organization is a synagogue.  I started writ...