2013

My paternal grandparents lived across from a canal in Long Beach on Long Island. We went to their house every ...

A series by Jewish moms and dads with LGBTQ children. When a child comes out, a coming out process begins ...

Two moments of communal life have come to my attention recently that speak to the dangers of exclusion in the ...

I hate when my parents ask me on visiting day or after camp “why weren’t you in any of pictures ...

We in the Jewish community just spent forty-nine days counting the Omer, the period from liberation to revelation, from leaving ...

When I was researching my last novel, my friend Michael Rohatyn found a book at the Strand he thought I might ...

A few weeks ago, an acquaintance of mine gleefully forwarded a link to a study that asserted that atheists and ...

When I was twenty, I met a charming elderly man on a train in Greece who told me I looked ...

Today Harvey Milk would have been 83. Instead, this gay Jewish hero, who was cut down in his prime, remains ...

Last week, I had the unique experience of driving to Demopolis, Alabama, (the recent subject of a Forward article about ...