2013

In the mid-nineteenth century, thousands of Jewish immigrants from Alsace-Lorraine came to America and made new lives for themselves in ...

Laura Thor spoke these words at Transgender Day of Remembrance last year, at a service held at Jefferson Unitarian Church, ...

I’ve just returned from a trip to Jerusalem where I participated in two important gatherings:  the Planning Summit for a ...

It used to be that most Jews affiliated with a synagogue. My parents’ generation supported their synagogues and the organized ...

“I am not a crook”“Read my lips – no knew taxes”“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”“Saddam Hussein ...

In the wake of the current discussion of the Gital Dodelson case (about which I know nothing more than what ...

Hanukkah’s almost here, so let us make the gift-giving easy! Send any these delicious, festive and seasonal kosher gift baskets ...

A numinous dream, last Wednesday:I am on Kibbutz Ein Dor, near the city of Afula in Northern Israel, visiting my ...

“Ensuenyo Te Vi” Three words that normally don’t go together: Ladino, Pop, Pregnant. But in my world they make a ...

Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (or “JDS” as it was fondly known), the school my three brothers and I ...