Tag: experience

Dedicated to my three teenagers

Question: Whom would you like to see as the next prime minister of Israel?

Geulah B'Rachamim contains 60 easily absorbed lessons about the significance of Jewish life on holy soil.

What do Plano, Texas, Thornhill, Ontario, and Olney, Md. have in common?

Upon walking into the synagogue at Hadassah Hospital, one is forced to look up.

“I feel mad because my brother is always breaking my things.” “I wish things weren’t always so hard for him.” “I feel both happy and sad that she is my sister.”

I just published a collection of my essays in English. Each time I am asked if I am also releasing the volume in Hebrew I feel a pain deep inside me when I answer that no, right now, my publisher is only interested in an English edition.

I recently attended a conference on a particular type of chronic illness that I knew little about.

Fifteen students from Weinbaum Yeshiva High School in Boca Raton, Florida, recently attended the Yeshiva University's National Model United Nations.

Last week I talked about the conference I attended that was designed for non-Jewish caregivers of our elderly and Holocaust survivors.

A person becomes ill. In most cases his/her family will rally and be there for support.

In a 1972 study, Stanley Milgram found that "familiar strangers" who share a repeated experience (like riding the same bus every day) are likelier to communicate when cast into an unfamiliar setting, than are two strangers with no such shared experience.

We all have our favorite charities. We tend to give more money to those charities that are close to our own experience, that have helped us or someone we know, or have touched our heartstrings in some way.

Something is blooming in Brooklyn that promises a dramatic revitalization of Jewish visual culture.

Israeli Trees, The Four Corners Of Jewish Art, Kabbalistic Shells, And Tender Heaviness

The lure of warm weather in winter has many of us who are retired going south for the winter.

Author: Ronald L. Eisenberg Publisher: Devora Press, Jerusalem

Over the last several weeks I have received many letters that have offered advice, asked for help or simply responded to one of my articles.

Mattress companies are forever reminding us that we spend one third of our lives in bed.

In a 1934 article, titled "New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers," Mark Rothko drew upon his experience teaching at the Brooklyn Jewish Academy to explore a new model of art instruction.

In this five-part series I have tried to explain what works and what doesn't when trying to send a message of support to someone in a time of crisis.

Mina was married for over 36 years.

Last week I wrote about the difficulties many chronically ill and handicapped people have, participating in the simchas of their children.

This column is being written on my secular birthday, February 14 (my real birthday is 11 Adar), a birthday - not surprisingly - that I share with my twin brother.

If you are a connoisseur of excellent cuisine, or if you just like to eat well, you will agree that the best part of traveling to exotic locations is sampling the local cuisine.

It's that time of year again. You're sure to be visually bombarded at every turn of your shopping experience.

In a sense, the history of the Jewish people is a history of installation art. The thunder and lightning, booming shofar and floral assortment at Sinai were intense aesthetic experiences.

For more than a year now, I have been relating stories from and about well spouses. When these stories reflected a common experience, I wrote about them.

My husband and I recently took part in a unique experience; one that proved to be both pleasurable and educational.

"You know, I don't really see so well anymore," said Tom Barron as we stood in Arthur Yanoff's Great Barrington studio, trying to safely navigate amongst the blizzard of paper shavings that littered the floor.