Category: Columnists

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy: Though we have been members of a congregation for many years and have led an involved Je

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, As our family sang Shalom Aleichem this past Friday evening, I began to think about the s

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, This year I am making my first Pesach seder. Help! I don't know where to begin. Our side

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, While recently waiting for a flight out of the Dallas airport to Seattle pretty early

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, We have just finished 12 weeks in the Torah reading service of the book of Bereshit '

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, As this Hanukkah season approaches, the issue of gift giving rears its complicated head y

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I have been struggling with weight loss my entire life. I have tried every avenue possib

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, The issue of children and chores is steadily escalating in our home. The conflicts have

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, As we approach the High Holidays this year, the words of the prayer 'who by fire who by w

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Our first child is going to start school this fall for the very first time, and I think I'm h

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Is it my imagination, or are people far vainer and more obsessed with their bodies than they

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I noticed that the popular, very cool new Hasidic reggae artist, Matisyahu, made a single app

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am dreading what I know will become an uncomfortable moment as we get ready for my famil

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I need help navigating the perils of Purim! I do not like Purim. I find it to be a very troub

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, My spouse comes from a more observantly Jewish home than I, and now that we have kids he wo

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, When I would bottle-feed my newborn child during his first few weeks of life, he would cur

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Do you have any ideas about how to inject some substantial content int

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I have heard about the celebrations around the 350th Anniversary of Jewish Life in

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy The other night I was watching Jon