Category: What’s Your JQ?

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, The Boston Marathon bombing is just devastating and shocking, one more tragic life-changing m

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Year after year at the seder all is going well, then — there it is — the paragraph that unset

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, On one hand, the good news is that everything turns out okay for us at the end of the Megilla

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Golden Globes, Oscar nominations — any Jewish thoughts on this year's movies? Having not y

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, With December coming to an end and 2013 looming, I was wondering if it is permitted to make N

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I have always wondered about this question in connection to Hanukkah: Why, of all the differ

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, As we begin the new cycle of the Torah reading I can't help but feel — for lack of a better p

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Maybe it was the madeleine on the cover of his book, "Proust was a Neuroscientist." Who know

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, My dilemma is around the Holocaust and how to relate to it. On one hand, I think I know plent

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Did you catch the latest "America's Got Talent?" It's the one with the adorable kippah-weari

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am so sad for Shavuot. It's almost over before it gets started! The upcoming festival is s

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I don't know what to think after seeing the Oscar-nominated Israeli movie, "Footnote." On on

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, So much attention is lavished by all of us on the night of the seder; the meticulous prepara

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Have you heard about the latest literary challenge? Six word memoirs! I read about them in t

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, It is that time of year when "Best of the Year" lists meet the awards season. It can be a f

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I just read Nathan Englander's short story in the latest New Yorker and I found something dee

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Hanukkah is our family's favorite holiday. We host a different set of guests each night and w

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, There has been quite a bit of public conversation about the troubling issue of bullying. I wa

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Confession: I have a love-hate relationship with the High Holidays. On one hand, I very much

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, A friend of mine is getting married this fall and came to me with some questions about the we