|
|
Published Works of Aaron
Howard
Aaron's Archives
|
Search Results - - Family |
|
Click on the Name of the property to see pictures and more details. |
Stem Cells Become A Political Issue in Texas
| Nina Brown walks the walk. Actually it’s more like a shuffle. She can’t put one foot in front of the other. So she takes baby steps, tentatively putting each foot out because although she knows what her legs need to do, her brain won’t allow it. She |
|
|
How Are You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Organic Farm?
| On her 50-acre farm outside Fayetteville, about an hour west of Houston, Gayla Lyons is cutting heads of lettuce from the soil with a machete.
You’ve never seen lettuce like this. There are types with loose heads that form beau |
|
 |
A Modest Path to Modesty
| It was one of those mother-daughter moments. Vicki Teller and her daughter, Ariella, then six, were in Target last December. Ariella was looking to spend a gift card she got for Chanukah.
Mom and daughter are in the doll aisle |
|
 |
Keeping Kosher #1 - 30 Days and the First Steps
| Give us 30 days and we’ll show you easy it is to keep kosher. That was the challenge thrown out to visitors at The Kosher Extravaganza.
The morning-long event held on February 25 at the Beren Academy, brought together local ko |
|
|
"Sixty Six": A Generation Ago, A Jewish Boy Becomes A Man
| It’s 1966 in England. For 12-year-old Bernie Rubens (Gregg Sulkin), the last kid to be picked for team sports, his upcoming bar mitzvah promises to make him the center of attention for the first time in his life. Bernie envisions “The Gone With the W |
|
|
Turning 21 and Losing One's Medical Care
| Evan White turned 21 in November. Other Houstonians might have marked the coming of age with a legal alcoholic drink. However, for Evan, the occasion is life threatening. It’s not because of his disease--which IS life threatening, but which he has li |
|
|
Putting Up A Mezuzah? You Might Want to Wait Until It's Legal
| Texas home owner’s associations will no longer be able to ban residents from affixing a mezuzah to their front door posts if a bill pending the Texas house passes. The bill, HB 3025, is waiting for passage by The House Committee on Business and Indus |
|
|
Knowing When to Get Help Is Key Says Alzheimer's Consultant
| Your wife or parent has been having some strange behavior lately. There’s been a change in their ability to communicate and some memory impairment. They keep losing words and needing help to come up with the correct word. This might have started occu |
|
|
Calling In A Shaman To Heal Autism
| If your kid had autism, how far would you go to heal him?
For the parents of Rowan Isaacson, the geographic distance was Mongolia. The treatment was a shamanistic healing ceremony. The outcome? That’s up for grabs as viewers of the ne |
|
|
A Power Prayer In the Afternoon
| Observant Jews pray three times a day—and in a minyan if they can. Finding a minyan for the mincha (afternoon) is easy in New York. Difficult in Houston--until now.
Welcome to Houston’s only daily mincha minyan outside of a Jewish venu |
|
|
A Descendant of the Bielski Partisans Salutes His Grandfather
| As the final credits of the film “Defiance” rolled, Houstonian David Bach’s eyes filled up with tears. The credits informed audiences that the Bielski brothers saved the lives of more than 1200 Jews in the swampy forests of Belarus during the Holocau |
|
|
Inclusive Jewish Communities
| Kids are natural theologians. That’s because they ask the big questions.
“What children do is try to make sense of the world,” says Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson. “They are constantly trying to fit it all together. That’s what theologian |
|
|
A Theology of Ecology
| Ellen Bernstein started the first Jewish environmental organization in 1988.
“When I started Shomrei Adamah,” she said, “I was looking for a place to hang my hat, Jewishly.”
In the environmental world at that time, a st |
|
|
The Compromises Made By Early Zionists
| At its origins, Zionism aimed at nothing less than to alter, in the most fundamental sense, the meaning of being Jewish. By establishing a Jewish national home, the founders of Zionism sought to restore a sense of peoplehood to European Jews, to revi |
|
|
The Compromises Made By Early Zionists
| At its origins, Zionism aimed at nothing less than to alter, in the most fundamental sense, the meaning of being Jewish. By establishing a Jewish national home, the founders of Zionism sought to restore a sense of peoplehood to European Jews, to revi |
|
|
Leopold Eidlitz: America’s First Jewish Architect
| The United States became a modern industrial nation during the so-called “Gilded Age”. From 1865 onwards, the immigrant population in American cities exploded. The need for industrial workers fueled the rise of cities like New York, Chicago and Bosto |
|
|
Studying the Exotic Other In Brooklyn
| Used to be that an anthropologist was someone who traveled to exotic places to study aboriginal people. In contrast, anthropologist Ayala Fader took the subway to Brooklyn’s Boro Park to do her fieldwork.
Fader studied how Bobover and |
|
|
Sermons To the Neoconservative Jewish Faithful
| Neoconservative friends occasionally send me links to articles from Commentary magazine. I read them. Unrepentant leftist that I am, I usually find the writing ideologically predictable and aggressively pedantic—particularly if the subject matter is |
|
|
The Morning After Yom Kippur: Be Mindful
| Imagine yourself at Neilah, at the conclusion of the Yom Kippur service. A bit overwhelmed with hunger and fatigue, you are also on a high that comes with the hard work of the day. Maybe, you think of yourself, today I can change the direction of my |
|
|
Jewish Houston
People
Politics
Books
The Arts District
Traditions
Family
Refugee Issues
Music Reviews
Introduction of Database | Search | Show All
|
|
