MISCELLANEOUS COLUMNS

If The Pilgrims Had Been Jewish (and tolerant of sea sickness)

An L.A. Couple is Married. The Wedding Guests? Two Hundred Children (best wedding guests ever)

Survivors of Mass Shootings: Three Stories, as Shared by Their Mothers (please don’t forget those who have survived)

Twenty-Five Head-Scratching Questions About Jews, Israel and the Middle East (Canada did what?!)

The Healing Bowl (on the Hollywood Bowl)

Turning Thorns into Flowers: How One Bereaved Family Has Helped Children Learn to Navigate Life’s Challenges

A Penalty Kick in the Pants (why Tabby just can’t bring herself to root for Iran in the World Cup)

From Thailand to the French Riviera, Chabad Delivers Shmurah Matzah (how many matzahs were sent to Thailand?!)

Straight Outta Hormuz (the one word we all need to know regarding tensions in the Persian Gulf)

I’m Really Starting to Lose It: Remarks on El Paso and Dayton (on anxiety in the age of mass shootings)

Why Don’t More People Know About the Atrocities in Myanmar? (and where’s the obsessive advocacy?)

There’s Something About Persian Women (after 40 years in the U.S., we find another form of liberation)

Covering My Bases (when covering hair is a choice…and in the merit of a miracle)

The Smartphone Dayenu (if only God had stopped at the first iPhone)

The Charm of Jewish Henna Ceremonies (a look into the wonderful pre-wedding traditions of some Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews)

How to Mindfully Read this Newspaper (a quick how-to guide for connecting with a print newspaper)

The Life-Changing Organization that Flies Under the Radar (and its amazing history of card-playing grandmothers)

And…In Other Campus News (the hypocrisy of human rights concerns on campus)

Get a Lot, then Give It Away (Tabby’s plan for philanthropy in retirement)

Cybersecurity Correspondent Talks Tachlis about Tech (an interview with Sheera Frenkel of The New York Times)

Delivering Kindness to Senior Center on Purim (how young Iranian-American Jews are giving back)

The Closing of Ketab (a legendary Persian-language bookstore bids us adieu)

Angels in the Fire (how a relentless fire in Southern California helped unify the Jewish community)

A Mother Immortalized on Film (one local woman’s search for her mother’s memories)

All in the Family (the extraordinary contributions of one Iranian-American Jewish family in So Cal)

Kindness Rules at Yavneh Hebrew Academy (a local school teaches reading, writing, arithmetic, and kindness)

Animal Casualties of the California Wildfires (stories of courageous four-legged friends)

See You in January! (I’ll be back sooner than you can say “Ayatollah”)

Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy and State of Israel Share 75th Anniversary