family history

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

Descended from Jewish grocers, groceries have shaped my Jewish life

Remembering an individual life that embodied a slice of small town American Jewish life

Remembering the flavors and folks of seders past.

I left Stockholm in the fall of 1998 and moved to Oslo, for I had discovered the neighboring land’s greatest ...

My parents left the United States in 1973 to retire in Bat Yam, Israel, the country in which they met ...

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

It’s clear from the names of my two pop culture humor books, Cool Jew and Hot Mamalah, that my Jewish background is ...

I found my first error in my book in this sentence in the introductory chapter, “Hidden Jew”: “My stepfather [Randy]…knew ...

Earlier this summer, I mingled among a group of amateur and professional genealogists at an international Paris conference exploring the ...