Today is a day I have been longing for for at least a month. The church bells are playing, the sun is shining, the temperature is rising, and I can see bits of grass under mounds of snow. In some ways, the dreariness of winter has been most appropriate. We are in Lent after all, so...
I grew up in the rural South, where there was not a whole lot of diversity. Though I knew about the Jewish faith, I did not really know any practicing Jewish people growing up. It wasn’t until adulthood that I became friends with a practicing Jewish person. She took me to...