Category: What’s Your JQ?

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, In preparation for the upcoming holiday of Purim, I decided to really read the Book of Esther

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, When I was growing up, "Hava Nagila" was the typical, clichéd Jewish must-be-played song — now suddenly it's "in" for r

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, Dear Rivy, Is it my imagination or has Tu B'Shevat taken on a significance beyond its original intent? When I was growing

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I have come to the conclusion that Jews have a hang-up with hair. Think about it: first there

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I don't know where else to turn. I am very down — my father is a Hasmonean Maccabee and has b

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist This column is dedicated to my father, who celebrated his ninetieth birthday this past week of Parshat Y

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I grew up without a Jewish education, but have come to love learning. I have finally, after m

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Please settle this argument between myself and my spouse. I say dreidels are a Jewish version

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I recently read about the 'kosher chicken' scandal on the East Coast. It seems that a sup

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, My daughter is getting married and we are having a Jewish wedding. Her father and stepfa

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist I am so deeply disturbed about the events of this summer. It seems like all we Jews have been experienc

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am reading the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. I am enjoying

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, In honor of Mother's Day I decided to prepare a speech, a d'var Torah, about mothers and