Good Causes

From Rockets to Knowledge: The Difference We Can Make for Sderot Youth

Summer camp was the best place on earth for me as a kid (probably still would be as an adult). Being a camper and escaping from real life for a week or two at a time was just so needed from ages 7 to 15. I mean school was hard, what with all those math problems, and recess was already...

CNN World Report: Jerusalem’s YMCA Preschool

This week my piece  for Israel21C on Jerusalem’s YMCA Preschool was on CNN World Report. It starts around 9 minutes. I love this show because it takes news stories from around the world to show what’s going on in those countries, as opposed to what the media thinks is...

Partial Passover Anxiety Relief: Collection of Chametz by Shachen Tov in Jerusalem

The Passover/Pesach frenzy has begun as I greedily relish bread (gasp!), cookies, cakes, and other leavened products (naughty!) before I have to give it up for a week. What I have not been relishing, though, is the thought of cleaning my house.  The anxiety for Pesach starts weeks...