Daily Life
Has America Lost Its Grit?
At the same time as a wave of literature about the power of "grit" in success and life has hit America, it seems that we've lost any ability to focus....
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Min Kantrowitz
Rabbi Min Kantrowitz is a Rabbis Without Borders Fellow, teaches about CryptoJews and Conversos of New Mexico for Road Scholar/Elderhostel and has private students. She directed the New Mexico Jewish Community Chaplaincy Program for 12 years, serving unaffiliated Jews throughout the state. A 2004 graduate of the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, she is the author of ?Counting the Omer: A Kabbalistic Meditation Guide?. Rabbi Kantrowitz is a former psychologist, a former architect/planner, a wife, mother and the proud Bubbie of three grandsons.
Spirituality & Faith
What’s An Ethical Will? And Why Should You Write One?
Wills... the kind that are shared after we pass away... are almost completely focused on "things." What if we wrote a will that was instead focused on anything but...
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March 02, 2016
Relationships & Family, Wisdom Warehouse
Imagine Being Loved Without Excelling
What if we stopped expecting perfection from ourselves and from others? What if performance didn't determine worth?
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January 26, 2016
Daily Life
Why Is Downton Abbey So Popular?
I don’t often watch Downton Abbey (truth be told, I only watched ten minutes of it one time), but the frenzy over the start of what is to be the...
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January 07, 2016
Spirituality & Faith, Wisdom Warehouse
Using the Holidays to Re-evaluate Priorities
Our stores and streets seem transformed: has the population suddenly doubled or has the clock suddenly switched to some kind of double time? There is a sense of frantic haste...
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December 10, 2015
Daily Life, Wisdom Warehouse
Too Much, Too Fast: Why We Need to Pause in Life
One day, I realized I’d never seen a semicolon as part of a tweet, those compact teasers of communication brought to us by Twitter. It made me think differently about...
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November 12, 2015
Daily Life, Wisdom Warehouse
Why We Live Where We Live
It’s hard to keep track of friends and relatives when they move around so much. My address book (when I still used one made of paper) was full of crossed-out...
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October 27, 2015
Relationships & Family, Wisdom Warehouse
Are Memories the Heart of Wisdom?
A former New York costume designer once mentioned the concept of a “moment” to me. In theater costuming, a moment is some contrasting design element that catches the attention of...
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