Good Yontif.  When I was growing up my mom had a good friend named Sue Lahm.  Sue was what you would call a “theatre person” – and by that I mean she was funny and colorful and wonderfully creative.  Sue never made it to Broadway, her stage was the annual Cincinnati JCC Spring Musical – an opportunity for song and satire.  I was too young to remember most of her plays, but I will never forget her masterpiece – “A Tsoris Line”.  You remember the premise of A Chorus Line – young singers and dancers sharing their life stories as...

Once upon a time, my family, like that of many of the families here in Silicon Valley, might have identified as spiritual but not religious, though be totally honest I’m not entirely sure about the spiritual part. Up until I was about seven years old, Sunday mornings were for Dunkin Donuts and cartoons, and Friday nights were for little league and The X Files. But as I entered second grade, my mom began to feel a yearning for a community of faith. We lived in Shaker Heights, Ohio, which meant, among other things, that a lot of her friends were...