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On Saturday night, a lot of revelers walked up and down our street. Some seemed too happy (or too inebriated) to realize that they were...

I don’t always come home from the dentist smiling. But I’ve been smiling since I walked out of the dentist’s office this morning,...

We are onboard! After much packing and repacking, and unpacking, we are on our way to Tel Aviv, and then to Rishon. I'm having my...

Fortunately for me, Service Canada was right when they said my new passport would arrive by December 30. In fact it arrived right on...

We're discussing Amos Oz's Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land at the synagogue book club this weekend. As you can imagine, pretty...

Mum has been sorting Christmas things recently, donating reams of old lights, wrapping paper, decorations, candles and icicles for the tree

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. (Isaiah 40:...

So the problem with turning 60 and saying you're going to do a big thing is that then you have to do a big thing.

Ten years ago, when I was a young thing of 50, I decided to do my adult bat mitzvah. That is a kind of grown up imagining of what it...

There's a terrific community production of Fiddler playing this weekend at Halifax's Spatz Theatre. I say "terrific" not in the way that...

It's good to take stock every now and then. Like, once a decade? I know someone who only has a birthday party every ten years - he says...