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Get Outside: Take A Bath

Your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you

Leonard Cohen

No, not that kind of a bath. The Japanese kind- “Shinrin yoku,” or forest bathing. The movement originated in Japan as a response to the tech boom and b…

Around town for the holidays…

Nashville young adults, newcomers and regulars, celebrated a joyous Rosh Hashanah dinner at the home of Becca Groner, director of local Moishe House Without Walls. For more info and to make sure you are in the picture, contact Becca at ragroner@gmail.com.

Kvetch in the City-October 2023

Let’s just say, I’m burning sage.

Let’s just say it would be appropriate to call the dating App Hinge “Unhinged”

Let’s just say, the app is no longer on my phone.

Let’s just say, I’ve come to the realization that dating someone for one and a half months at this age is th…

Real People, Real Stories: Educate and Upift Stories of Trans Community

Rori Picker Neiss’ 12-year-old son meets President Joe Biden.

According to a recent study by UCLA Law School’s Williams Institute, Tennessee is home to more than 30,000 transgender people over the age of 13, amounting to just over 1.25% of the state’s total population. And last year…

CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF AKIVA!

Akiva School 1964

Since its establishment, Akiva School has stood as a beacon of education, shaping the minds of countless generations of Jews in Nashville. Founded in 1954 by Rabbi Zalman Posner of Congregation Sherith Israel, at a time when Nashville was home to a mere 2,700 Jews, Akiva…

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