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Sep 6, 2026, 10:42 AM

My Mother’s Aliya: A Pseudo-Pregnancy Journal

Rochel Berman meeting her great-grandson Ivri Berman for the first time at Ben-Gurion Airport, Sept 1, 2026. Photo: Neta Berman-Dagan

The joy, the labor and the trepidation of preparing for my 90-year-old mother’s aliya

Carol Silver Elliott

Sep 2, 2026, 11:47 PM

Looking for Longevity

Maybe you saw the same story that I did recently, about the 91-year-old man who just completed a hike of the Appalachian Trail, a distance of 2,190 miles. He’d set a record as the oldest hiker to complete the...

Aug 30, 2026, 6:31 AM

The People We Love Keep Becoming

Ki Tavo and the courage to love someone you haven’t fully met yet I think we set the bar for love far too low. We talk about finding someone who will love us “just the way we are.” But if you are...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 21, 2026, 5:30 AM

19th Fisesp Aging Seminar unites 325, expands to Latin America

Celia Parnes, Ricardo Berkiensztat and Sueli Schreier with the Joint delegation

The Jewish Federation of the State of São Paulo (Fisesp) gathered 325 participants this Wednesday (19) at Unibes Cultural for the 19th edition of the Aging Seminar, which this year had the theme “Aging in the 21st Century –...

Annette Poizner

Aug 21, 2026, 5:26 AM

The Ancestors Within Us: A Chinese and Jewish Legacy

A remarkable scientific claim has recently been travelling around social media. Spend ten minutes a day thinking about one grandparent, it says, and after thirty days, genes inherited from that grandparent will become more active. It is a captivating idea. It...

Carol Silver Elliott

Aug 19, 2026, 11:14 PM

I had a recent opportunity to speak at Friday night services at a congregation in Colorado Springs that I had never attended before. The rabbi, a long-time friend, asked me to include a side trip to Colorado Springs on...

Jonathan Weinkle

Aug 16, 2026, 7:25 AM

Don’t Fall Off

Nearly forty years ago at summer camp, I learned a song about a bridge. This year, I learned the significance of the bridge. The song was “Gesher Tzar Me’od,” “A Very Narrow Bridge.” It was based on the teaching of Rebbe...

Aug 12, 2026, 10:22 PM

Building on Shifting Sand: Raising Kids in Israel

I was raised in a quiet suburb in Westchester county outside New York City, where life unfolded among single-family homes and an unspoken script about how things were supposed to go. In high school, we often heard about the...

Carol Silver Elliott

Aug 5, 2026, 4:12 AM

Flights of Fancy

Can you imagine taking all of the elders in a nursing home and going, by plane, to exotic places? Many of these individuals have complex medical issues, they are in wheelchairs with limited mobility and their health needs ongoing...

Jul 29, 2026, 9:15 PM

From Lab to Life: Reversing Aging

Can scientists really turn back the block for us seniors, and reverse aging? K.R. Callaway reports on new research in this area, in the New York Times, July 24 (“Can this new enzyme turn back the clock in the...

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