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My recent posts...What’s in a number? 25 years. It’s been 25 years since 3,000 Americans were massacred and American complacency was shattered, on one beautiful September morning. 25 years. We make a big deal out of some numbers, consider them to be milestones. Think...

My recent posts..."Talmud of America" Pardes Institute, a non-denominational study center based in Jerusalem, offers immersive Jewish learning around the world. One project is “Talmud of America,” which aims to illuminate and interpret, through Jewish eyes, some...

My recent posts...Twilight Zone בֵּין הַשְׁמָשׁוֹת Bein hashemashot, literally, between the suns. בֵּין הַשְׁמָשׁוֹת A twilight zone of time, or rather, out of time, between one day and the next. Our sages of old used this concept to explain certain miraculous...

My recent posts...My edited comments from this past final day of Pesach. Ellie’s mom, Julia Helfman, died on her 95th birthday, December 24, 2025. This was the first Yizkor service Ellie feels obligated to attend. She said, “I’m now a member of a club I was not eager...

It had become a Kremer household Pesach tradition, or rather, a pre-Pesach tradition. Somewhere within a couple of days prior the first seder and noon on erev Pesach, something would go awry in the kitchen.

My recent posts...רֶגַע שֶׁל עִבְרִית regga shel ivrit: A moment of Hebrew The summer of 1970, I was one of 250 teens in Israel with Camp Ramah. (Ellie was on the same program, but we didn’t meet then.) I got an outsized pleasure of riding an Egged public bus in...

Yesterday afternoon, Ellie and I were privileged to attend the Ceremonial Swearing-In of Honorable Irina G. Ehrlich as Judge in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County. Irina and her husband Charlie Ehrlich, 15 years a judge in the same court, are members of Shirat Hayam.

My recent posts...843 Days Ran Gvili, an Israeli police officer, was killed by Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel on October 7, 2023. His body was taken into Gaza to be used as a pawn in the terrorists’ anticipated negotiations with Israel and as a tool for waging...

My recent posts...Arson in Mississippi Click here to help rebuild Beth Israel. The Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi, was founded in 1860 by German Jewish immigrants, and soon after purchased land for a cemetery. By the end of 1862, fifteen Jewish...