By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Editor's note: This article has been corrected regarding the status of the Buckholtzes lay leadership certifica
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Every year we do the same thing for Hanukkah — light the candles, make a few latkes. I know t
Read More
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Even though he is now an Ohio resident, and has been for a while, Sam Chestnut says he draws upon his education
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy , All I hear these days is of our foreboding economic circumstances — and for good reason. Peo
Read More
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Julia Eulenberg has been doing some detective work for the past three years — the historical kind. She's writin
Read More
By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist Marvin Stern is the new executive director of Washington Appleseed, a non-partisan, non-profit public interest
Read More
By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist Last we heard from nationally known women's health educator Toni Weschler, almost four years ago, she was writ
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I have heard a number of people talking about Mussar of late. It sort of seems like it is thi
Read More
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist It's taken almost 15 years from conception to birth, but Michael Schein has published his first novel, Just Dec
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy: Thinking about the rapidly approaching High Holiday season, it dawned on me that Rosh Hashana
Read More
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Standing on a beach, or a bluff overlooking the ocean, we are impressed by the power of crashing waves, and ope
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Growing up, our home was, for lack of better words, very pessimistic. The approach to everyt
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am so deeply disturbed by the faces of the people in Lebanon cheering the return of the ter
Read More
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Ari Livne of Mercer Island was named a Presidential Scholar in the arts last month. Ari, who just graduated fro
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, After I purchased a new suit, a friend asked me if I had had it checked for "shatnez." I hav
Read MoreBy Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Recent Oberlin College graduate Laura Kanter has received the Oberlin Hillel Award for Leadership in the Oberli
Read More
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist With their fundraising auction on June 8, Chamber Music Madness will celebrate its 10th year of teaching young
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Though there always seems to be some controversy du jour in the Jewish community, of late the
Read More
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist I spoke to Sonya Schneider after she had wrapped up the production of her play, Wake, which she began writing a
Read More
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist The Legacy Heritage Fund has awarded a grant to 16-year-old Lucas Eggers that will allow him to study science i
Read More