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Missing travel this summer, I revisited my journal and found this story from June 2018. We weren’t allowed to take pictures inside the Great Synagogue. As I stepped through the frosted, etched doors of the shul built in the late...

As the sun kissed the Pacific goodnight at Kaimana Beach, I was told that the key to living into your 90s was lots of good sex. Oh, and being social too. This was just one of the many lessons I...

  “To greet the sun as it rises- this was the tradition of the ancestors...Everyone would turn to the sun with prayers of love and gratitude because native practitioners believe that with the coming of the sun, the mana (life...

I spent some time scrolling through photos from last summer's soujourn in Italy and France.  Here are some lessons I learned while visiting Florence, Viterbo, Castiglione della Pescaia, La Turbie, Èze, Monaco, Antibes, and St. Tropez. Grilled bread with olive...

Tradition, tradition! Tradition! Just as Tevye had to adjust his concept of tradition because of societal changes encroaching on his life, so must we. Passover will be celebrated and rituals performed. However, instead of hosting twenty people at our Seder...