GOOD READS

Teenagers on my brain…The Emotional Whiplash of Parenting a Teenager by Lisa Damour and Your Teenager on Vacation — and on Social Media by KJ Dell’Antonia both in The New York Times.

Your Kids Are Ready to Talk About Israel. Are You? by Sivan Zakai & Miriam Heller Stern in Raising Kvell

This is great…School’s Letter Reminds Students That They Are More Than Just Test Scores by Rebecca Klein in The Huffington Post.

GOOD FOOD

Love Shashuka and love this post from Panning the Globe.

Don’t we all need life changing crackers?

Easy Three Ingredient Salsa from Smitten Kitchen.

  This Vegan Peach Crumble Coffee Cake from Food 52 is just the thing for summer.

3 genuis oatmeal ideas.

halvah popsicles!

 These sweet corn cakes I’m adding to my dinner rotation during the school year. Yum.

Banana soft serve – easy and healthy.

 Two great articles related to food, agriculture and Judaism by Michael Tortorello in The New York Times…New Gleanings from a Jewish Farm and From Beets to Borscht Belt.

FALL BOOKS

Excited about many of these new fall books.

What’s inspiring you in August?

XO