Dana Evan Kaplan

As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, we want not only to enjoy turkey, but to take note of all the things that we are grateful for. I...

We had a great Second Annual Pet Blessing in Memory of Helen Small this past Sunday! Helen's husband and mother came to help us remember...

This Sunday, November 6th, at 11:30 a.m., we will have our Second Annual Pet Blessing in Memory of Helen Small. Shortly after I arrived...

We had a wonderful Simchat Torah featuring the consecration of four new students. The parents all came and were very proud. Thanks to...

We had a wonderful Sukkot celebration, including lulavim and estrogim as well as a great chag dinner with hot dogs and all the trimmings!...

Photo Credit: Samantha Ewan Hurricane Matthew has now passed and left Jamaica almost as it found it. I had to experience the whole thing...

We brought a goat to the synagogue in Jamaica. It was a great way to show the children how the Bible can come alive. The dictionary...

We held our Selichot service this past Saturday night by candlelight in the sanctuary using a rather avant garde liturgy that some felt...

Our wonderful new shlicha, Ofir, arrived on Friday, August 19. She is from Israel and has met a lot of welcoming people who’ve been...

Judy Aronson and Amy Friedlander recently returned from the New York International Gift Show--a huge exhibition comprising an area of at...

Patricia Silverman is our director of education at the Springhill Avenue Temple. She and her husband, Howard, were among the people who...

Patricia Silverman is our director of education at the Springhill Avenue Temple, and recently talked to me about the opening of our...

I've always wanted a zippy car and I've more often than not been disappointed. In Jamaica, I was urged to get an SUV because of all the...

This is a brand new blog, so we may backtrack just a little bit until we can catch up. There’s been so much going on this past year. One...

Recently, there's been a lot of violence in society. Several religious leaders got together and we decided to have a service to pray for...

I was thrilled to be invited to deliver a paper at an academic conference in the Federal Republic of Germany called “Re-Framing American...

Moving to a new city is often a bit difficult, but settling into Mobile, Alabama, has been a breeze. I had never visited Mobile before...

Recently, ReformJudaism.org published a review of my work, The New Reform Judaism, by Rabbi P.J. Schwartz, the assistant rabbi at Temple...