Over the past week, as she’s continued to ask about the day and the man, I have been trying to figure out how to talk about Martin Luther King, Jr., with my five-year-old. At her school for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been impressed by how important they’ve made MLK in the children’s imaginations. She’d […]
Category Archives: Holidays
The Close and Holy Darkness
Ever since I married a Jewish man, I’ve been trying to figure out how to celebrate Christmas with my now-interfaith family. As a child, my family attended church on Christmas Eve; we set out cookies for Santa and waited to open presents. As the darkness of the night pressed close around, my family moved closer […]
Cookies are my Christmas mitzvah
When I was a child, I remember baking hundreds upon hundreds of Christmas cookies. We’d start with meringues, or perhaps sand tarts, thin butter cookies cut out in holiday shapes, with a brushing of egg and cinnamon in the middle that was just large enough to hold a bit of a pecan. These recipes made a […]
An Advent Meditation on #BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter#ICantBreathe The hashtags float across my Twitter screen; the headlines scream their depressing news, just days apart. With no time to catch a breath from the news in Ferguson, Eric Garner too lost his time to catch a breath. “I am awake. I can’t sleep. So here I am, writing,” I tweeted in the early hours […]
InterfaithFamily blog post — The Unintended Consequences of Blintzes for Blitzen
My new post for the InterfaithFamily Network is online! My Jewish husband and I (a Unitarian Universalist) might not have known what we were getting into when we decided to raise our kids Jewish—but keep celebrating Christmas—my favorite holiday. That was ten years ago. Fast forward five years, to this past January. We took our […]
