I recently returned from my annual fundraising expedition.  Each year our group, Jodi’s Climb for Hope travels the globe to raise money for promising breast cancer research. Our mountain climbs often take us to remote, if not less developed…

Shalom USA, one of the nation’s finest Jewish radio programs, is holding a event to mark its 10th successful year on the air. The show is aired live 8:30-10 a.m. Sundays on 1370 WVIE AM. The 10th anniversary event…

There is no starker reminder of the inability of Palestinians and Israelis to live together than the recent revelation by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem that both sides cannot even agree to purify their regional sources of drinking…

It’s a tough call. What do you do? You hear that a controversial group – a church outfit, no less – is coming to town, for a rally in front of three Jewish institutions. They want us all to…

A few weeks ago, I attended an almost all-day conference on the environment. It was held, appropriately enough, at the Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center, in Reisterstown, Md., a happening place for topics on the environment and sustainability. The…

Today we start the process of evaluating your prostate cancer and making a decision on how best to treat it. For now at least you have options. For those unfortunate men in Canada, the UK and anywhere else where…

Figuring out that your parents knew as little about raising children as you do is a mind altering experience. I spend much of my time in disbelief that I am the mom of two amazing kids, because I often…

She is pregnant; he had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out of the house into her front yard, while he continued to fight the fire. When he finally got done…

I had reason recently to read again the first line of the stunning, soaring, disturbing poem that Moses dramatically proclaims to the people Israel as his farewell address. (Deuteronomy 32) In another day, he will walk to the mountaintop,…

New York City was the supreme destination for most of my fellow art graduates at The University of Maryland College Park (Go Terps!) – it’s a common path for budding musicians and artists, NYC after all being the east…

High school proms are over, seniors have graduated, and graduation parties are in full swing.  A friend of mine heard that a child we have known for years was seen drinking heavily at a graduation party.  She asked me…

When I left for Israel, I knew that living there wasn’t going to be easy.  I was prepared to experience a different way of life; to be shoved out of line by aggressive natives, to ride the crowded buses…