The first woman to be ordained as a Reconstructionist rabbi, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso grew up in Philadelphia. She has served as rabbi of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis since 1977. A lecturer, educator, editor, and community activist, Sasso is an award-winning author of books for children and adults.
This wedding riddle from Italy is written in Hebrew and Judeo-Italian. Wedding songs, sometimes performed by professional jesters, were traditional at Jewish weddings. Some had lyrics in the form of…
The shtetl, lost here among Polish fields and groves, might be called Turek or Przasnysz, Konin or Maków, yet what one remembers is not the name but the old marketplace reeking of tar and dung where a…
However modestly my parents lived in the country, however little I was used to luxury and every comfort, at least at home I was used to cleanliness and order…