Category: What’s Your JQ?

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I confess: I became drawn in and addicted to the Casey Anthony trial. There is something capt

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am being urged by just about everyone I know to get on Facebook. My friends are threatening

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, We are getting newly involved in Judaism, thanks to our little one being enrolled in a Jewish

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, It's as if I'm paralyzed when I think about this year's Pesach. I am unable to plan or to get

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, As we deliberate over summer plans for our family, the idea of sending the kids to a Jewish c

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I think that Purim should be a time to educate people about the strength of Jewish women. But

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Are Chinese mothers elbowing out Jewish mothers in the "super-crazed, ambitious, drive-your-c

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, The good news is that we are well past our frantic winter gift-giving, overeating holiday. T

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, A friend of mine is going through a lot since being diagnosed with a serious illness. She and

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Now that the season has ended sadly, I believe the time has come for some words of wisdom for

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, As I prepare to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot I have been exploring the various customs, an

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am feeling less than thrilled about the High Holidays this year. First, they are really ear

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Have you noticed the amount of cooking shows on TV? What is this? Have we as a society become

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Is the world coming to an end? The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the latest Pandora-like

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, My husband and I have just moved back to Seattle. I am a native Pacific Northwestener and as

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Knowing that your father has just passed away I thought it would be timely to ask about the m

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy: Every year, as the seder gets to the point of opening the door for Elijah, it reminds me of t

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Thinking about the story of Esther often leaves me deeply confused and disturbed. Though the

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, The earthquake in Haiti really got me thinking. I donated to relief work — that was a given.

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I saw the Coen brothers' new film A Serious Man, and I don't know what to think. Is it good f