I have been cooking all 73 years of my married life, and I know when something needs salt or when it has enough.  But I knew little about sodium, a chief ingredient in salt. Then I was introduced to Sue Picus, a semi-retired registered dietician...

(Starting this week, you now listen to Amy's column on YouTube or click the link above) Journaling is all the rage. That’s why I’m starting a Rage Journal. It’ll be healthy to get the anger out.  Life always needs new coping strategies, so when...

In the days immediately following Oct. 7, Jewish professionals around the world knew that the landscape of Israel education would change forever. As the full spectrum of the atrocities carried out by Hamas terrorists came to light and the Israeli response...

Help the farmers of Israel I came home to Israel from University City over 41 years ago. As a child I remember in 1967 and 1973 U.S. Jews getting on planes to help Israel when there was a manpower shortage due to the war all the people called up to defend...

This Shabbat, many congregations in St. Louis and across the country will be celebrating Repro Shabbat, a Shabbat dedicated to lifting up the Jewish values of reproductive freedom and justice.  Repro Shabbat occurs annually when Jews around the world...

Dear Teens and Young People, You are special and wonderful and perfect just the way you are. But there are some things you need to know to be even better. Well, good news! Aunt Amy has got your back with some advice you didn’t ask for. It’s easy...

You cannot make peace with people who do not want peace’ No doubt, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen believed sincerely in their own good intentions when they passed their resolution last week calling on President Joe Biden to work toward a cease-fire...

According to Chabad, tzedakah is the uniquely Jewish perspective on charity. Tzedakah is a mainstay of Jewish life. The sages teach that the world was built upon kindness.  Tzedakah goes one step beyond. Literally translated as “justice” or “righteousness,”...

When the renowned Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky lived in Toronto in the 1940s, his synagogue presented him with a silver platter as a present for Purim. A few days later, one of the shul members saw Rav Kamenetsky in a Toronto pawn shop with this very...

We can still find miracles of light in our seasons of darkness The week before Oct. 7, my newly engaged son and his fiancée were enjoying the Festival of Sukkos in Israel. Jake and Morgan had tickets to return to St. Louis the following week, when...

It’s time to bid farewell to 2023. Many of us see a new year as a way of starting fresh, attacking a new goal and making positive changes. Really, we’re just moving from one day to the next but somehow seeing a new year on the calendar makes it feel...