Bracha Goetz

Although all children are at risk, pedophiles particularly seek out shy and naive children; children with disabilities; and children who are experiencing loneliness, emotional neglect or strong feelings of alienation. Children who are not educated about ...

If you’re feeling disappointed this Chanukah, after lots of buildup beforehand, maybe it’s because you can’t find your hidden cruse of oil. Maybe you are a single, feeling lonely tonight; or a parent of very young children, wishing you could feel a ...

We all want to be heard, but it is so hard to really listen – even to ourselves! Just about all of us have come to think of education as being about bringing knowledge from the outside in, not from the inside out, but it's really an exchange between one ...

It was the twenty-fifth of December, and when she closes her eyes she remembers, just how it was. A Jewish girl from Queens had fulfilled her secret dreams, decorating that bright, forbidden tree...

Every year, we would tell the story of how we first met each other inside a sukkah in Jerusalem, and how the sukkah slowly transformed into a wedding canopy...

Just looking around, the life lessons are plentiful. We learn that a plant plucked from its source quickly wilts and then withers. And that's just how we feel when we get disconnected from what gives us life...

The few brief words I say out loud into the air, I hope are going to be heard by the Cosmic Source of the Universe. And I'm hearing them. So that makes, at least, kind of two of us. But I also am coming to believe that prayers, like a butterfly's ...

Imagine you're in a room full of Jewish addicts. And you're volunteering to lead a group on Tuesday evenings. The group is called "Spirituality." What would you talk about?

The joy that comes from giving is incomparable. It is also a transformative message that can genuinely revitalize our homes...

So it's not like I am trying to make some kind of bartering deal with the Cosmic Infinite Source of the Whole Universe. It's just that I realized that maybe I'm a lot more into a vast variety of details than I ever faced – whether it's a bus coming on ...