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Mindful Ramblings

Mindful Ramblings: Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to eat iced matzoh balls

By Andrew Adler Community Editor I can always tell Passover is approaching because of the spike in ostensibly related emails cascading into my inbox.   Example: A few days ago, the good people over at Manischewitz sent me a press release … Read More >

Community March 28, 2025

Mindful Ramblings: Want your kids to love being Jewish? Send them to camp 

By Andrew Adler I have camp on the brain. Elsewhere in this issue of Community I’ve written about the powerful draw of Jewish overnight camps. That exercise in sleepaway-induced journalism propelled me into an abyss of camper nostalgia – not … Read More >

Community March 5, 2025

Mindful Ramblings: In the Middle East, hope is one thing, reality another

By Andrew Adler If the tortured history of the Middle East has taught us anything, it’s that the transition from war and destruction to peace and tranquility is at best tenuous and at worst catastrophic.   How many times over … Read More >

Community February 10, 2025

Mindful Ramblings: Inside Apt. 8B, the lights of Hanukkah never truly died 

By Andrew Adler Community Editor Growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Judaism occupied both the center and periphery of daily life. At the center was my father’s abiding, multigenerational connection to his working-class Jewish foundations; the periphery … Read More >

Community December 27, 2024

Mindful Ramblings: In Israel, the media is both message and mindset 

By Andrew Adler Community Editor In its quest to shape the hearts and minds of Jews both inside and outside the country, Israel’s media has staked out positions across the political spectrum. By turns fascinating, energizing, exhausting and frustrating, Israeli … Read More >

Community December 4, 2024

Mindful Ramblings: A glimmer of hope emerges from the darkness 

By Andrew Adler Community Editor This is a column about hope.  I was going to write about something else entirely this month until a few days ago on Tuesday, Aug. 27, when news broke that IDF soldiers had rescued a Hamas-held … Read More >

Federation September 5, 2024

Mindful Ramblings: These are the times that try editors’ souls

By Andrew Adler    You’ll have to excuse me, but writing this column has put me in a pretty foul mood.   Reason #1: The rampant cancel culture that seems to infect every facet of post-Oct. 7 life. First came the … Read More >

Community June 28, 2024
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