History

As I wrote in The Torch last fall, I started attending the early morning minyan at my synagogue with the ...

It’s been a nostalgic week for me. Although I defended my dissertation in June of last year and officially earned ...

My husband and I just returned from vacation, which included a stop in the Bahamas. Lucky for us, it rained. ...

“Ima, I’m eating breakfast. It tastes like home. I want to live here forever.”The simplicity and joy of my daughter’s ...

Tonight is Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Memorial Day. Last night I was discussing remembrance with my ninth graders at our ...

As Passover draws to a close, I’m reflecting on the seder I attended this year—a small and joyful gathering of ...

Over the generations women did not wait until the night of the Seder to show their commitment to upholding tradition. ...

I’ve been thinking about numbers lately. Not in a Jewish, gematria-type way, but in a way that kinda makes me wish I ...

This question has hounded me since childhood – both in the secular world where I grew up and in the ...

I’m a historian, and a native Texan, and Jewish; I love food and especially food history. So when those interests ...