At a Hanukkah party on Sunday (Dec. 10) at the East Lansing Public Library, Margot Valles wore bright orange tights and a navy-blue dress with a rainbow of colored pencils printed at the hem.
(JTA) — For Lyssa Jaye, throwing the wood chips into the Tuolumne River felt in many ways familiar to the tashlich ritual performed on Rosh Hashanah. But rather than casting
Challenged to come up with a religious innovation Deborah Newbrun remembers what was lacking when she divorced, adapting existing practices to help people with healing and closure
“One person ‘tashliched’ their wedding ring into the river,” Rabbi Deborah Newbrun recalled about the first “Divorce & Discovery: A Jewish Healing Retreat.”