March 2014

One of the greatest things that kids learn at camp is how to do things for themselves, from scratch. Campers ...

Those of you who follow my comedy know that my wife is a Black woman who converted to Judaism. What ...

In Iranian prison I didn’t hear the anti-Semitism that I anticipated. For months, I feared revealing my religion to guards. ...

Every year, when mid-March rolls around, the minds of so many turn to the NCAA basketball tournament and “March Madness.” ...

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each ...

My husband and I are binge-watching  Lost , a 2004-2010 TV series. An airplane crashes, leaving survivors stranded without rescue ...

The story of Esther teaches us many things, amongst them, that timing is everything.This year, the women’s Megillat Esther reading ...

Carnival, Mardi Gras, Carnaval.  These words convey exhuberance, dancing, masks, and overflowing joy (and often excess). From Rio to New ...

How is this book different from all your other books?The most obvious answer: in Visible City, there are no description of ...

The call came the other day from our son Jonah’s sleep-away summer camp. Registration was almost completed and we hadn’t ...