LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

Last year when Matt, the adult religious ed director at St. Mike's Catholic Church, asked the Wednesday morning class what they'd li...

"The Sabbath, I said, is not only an idea. It is also something you keep. With other people."  - Judith Shulevitz If you read o...

A few months ago when I reviewed Sarah Dunn's Secrets to Happiness, my daughter Heidi told me I'd also enjoy Jennifer Weiner '...

Challah is the traditional Jewish Sabbath bread eaten with the Friday evening meal. Back in 1973, when we lived down the street from an exc...

Four months ago I mentioned a pre-publication review of Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews by Kevin J. Madigan and Jon...

Though I am not Jewish, I have a wonderful rabbi. Here's what he tells me about praying for the sick: Whenever we pray for a sick person...