Jewish Culture

I’ve never cried when a celebrity suddenly dies. It has always seemed like something that just happens. Certainly, it’s a ...

  What makes a secular Israeli connect to his Jewish identity, roots and spirituality? What makes secular Jew from Jerusalem ...

I’m a Latina Jew. I live in New York City, famous for the diversity of its population; after all, 37 ...

Last night, I had the great honor of reading from my new novel,  The Anatomy Lesson  (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) inside ...

A new issue of the JOFA Journal will soon be in our subscribers’ mailboxes; its theme is Orthodox women in ...

A few days ago my novel,  Fields of Exile , was published in the USA, and this month marks exactly ...

Mom. Mommy. Ima. Madre. Mother. No matter how many ways I say it, the concept still catches me by surprise ...

In January 1906, a woman wrote a letter to a Yiddish daily newspaper called the  Forward , to complain that her watch ...

Passover is a time for storytelling. One of the main purposes of the holiday is to allow one generation to ...

It took me more than three years to finish  Shlepping the Exile . I had a job as a researcher ...

In this week’s Torah portion, God explains that God has called not only Betzalel and Oholiav to execute their craft ...

Plot was the last thing on my mind when I sat down to make a novel out of the stories ...