I have been hiding from the audience my entire life. I am not sure if this is because I have ...

If there is one consistent theme in the ongoing discoveries of my family history it is meaningful coincidence. Some people ...

[A digital rendering of this originally hand-written epistolary blog post can be found here.]June 19, 2015Hello and Happy Pride Month!I ...

For several weeks now, I’ve maintained a careful silence in my 9th grade Jewish Literature classroom about the politics of immigration ...

I’ve recently become obsessed with the idea of going to Suriname. Until about a month ago I wouldn’t have been ...

This past week, I listened to a Public Radio interview with Humaira Awais Shahid, a Muslim woman who is a Pakistani ...

The father of the children of Israel.

How the pandemic gave me time to find my family’s stories

From horseradish to chutney, some people have unique latke tastes.

Until I moved to India, I’d never viewed being Jewish as something unusual. I grew up in an upper middle ...