Category: What’s Your JQ?

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Chanukah is our family's favorite holiday. As it approaches every year I try to plan somethin

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, With the fall holidays now over, we've begun to read the Torah from the beginning. Determined

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, A non-Jewish person I work with came in this week with a very harsh criticism of a Jewish pra

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I don't know when I started noticing this or maybe once I did notice it, I just started to no

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I know this time of year is a mourning period for the Temple and that there is a tradition to

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I have been asked to participate in the wedding ceremony of a close friend. They have graciou

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I just read a news article about a number of Israeli leaders coming out with a new stance tow

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am looking for a concise authentic source that communicates the core values of Judaism. I o

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Though Pesach is still a few weeks away, plans are already underway in our home for seder ni

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I visited my grown children over winter break and saw to my horror that at bedtime they turn

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, What's a Jew to do? One positive aspect about the developments in the Mideast is that it has

By 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

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy , All I hear these days is of our foreboding economic circumstances — and for good reason. Peo

By 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

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy: Thinking about the rapidly approaching High Holiday season, it dawned on me that Rosh Hashana

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Growing up, our home was, for lack of better words, very pessimistic. The approach to everyt

By 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

By 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

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Though there always seems to be some controversy du jour in the Jewish community, of late the

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy: I love Pesach — once I'm sitting at the seder, that is. Until that point, the rush and the pa