Holocaust

Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city’s complex and sometimes disturbing relationship to toward its Jewish ...

Earlier this week, Leslie Maitland wrote about choosing an epigraph, the artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteineproject, and reconnecting branches of her family ...

I have always been fascinated by epigraphs — those borrowed words that authors choose to introduce and encapsulate the message ...

German artist Gunter Demnig created these two Stolpersteine in memory of Samuel Sigmar and Alice Berta Gunzburger in 2005. He ...

In 1989 I accompanied my parents and brother on my mother’s first visit back to her birthplace of Freiburg im Breisgau ...

Dr. Abigail Green’s new book, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero, is now available.What makes a good biography? I thought ...

Last week, while checking in on the latest articles on the Religion page of the Huffington Post, the following headline ...

My fascination with New Mexico began in 2007, when I moved to Albuquerque sight unseen to write my first novel,  ...

Before I’d settled on acting or writing, my greatest aspiration was simply to “Be Anne Frank,” and when I was twelve, ...

The Exodus from Egypt is considered to be the foundational/orienting event for our sacred history. Many commandments are attached to ...