A treat that does the trick

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Every year, my children come home from Hebrew School telling me that their teachers told them

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All about education

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist It's a purple garden in a purple house. The purple house is real. It's Ruz Gulko's home in Bellevue and a local

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Making resolutions

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Around January 1 every year there is a lot of talk about New Year's Resolutions. Do we Jews h

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Taking care of business

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist I recently received an e-mail from Amy Gray. She told me my closets were dusty. How did she know, I wondered? S

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The added ingredient

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, As we prepare to dip that apple in honey and to get into gear for major honey cake baking, I

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Saying goodbye

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, My father recently passed away and I find myself saying the Kaddish prayer on a daily basis.

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One giant leap

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Lysa Adams is determined to raise money to fight the auto-immune disease lupus and set a record at the same tim

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Awards season wrap-up

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Jewish Day School faculty member Nance Adler has been awarded a Legacy Heritage Jewish Communal Scholarship for

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Knowing the score

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am pretty new to Judaism, taking a few classes here and there, and often find that it's all

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Awards season is upon us

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist I interviewed Rachel Berry by e-mail while she was en route to China to begin a round-the-world trip. "This is

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Visualizing secrets

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, After seeing the movie The Secret I purchased the book and have become very drawn to this app

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A dip in the cocoa

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist If you watch the National Geographic channel's "Is It Real?" series, you may have seen Steven Blum in the segm

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The pursuit of “why”

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, As we process the horrific shootings in Virginia Tech I, cannot help but wonder about the Je

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