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

This is a guest post by Andrew Tertes, the author of Jacob’s Return. He is blogging here today for Jewish ...

“Last Shabbos, because of me more people were talking about gay rights around the the Shabbes table, and it’s a ...

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 ...

I was thinking today about a Memorial Day breakfast I attended a couple years ago at the home of a ...

So it’s always given me a thrill when a bunch of musicians I love play a song together, and I ...

I met Peter Beinart in 1999 when he was writing an article for The Atlantic on Jewish community day schools. ...

President Obama’s comments on gay marriage provoked much comment and consternation.  In the Jewish world, while one national Democratic leader ...

When my ten year old daughter heads to sleep-away camp this summer she will follow a family tradition that began the ...

The Western Wall beckoned at the beginning of the new Hebrew month of Kislev, 5760.I was studying at the Conservative ...

…And to be clear, in the following analogy, Chase is the prostitute.At a time when two-income families struggle to make ...

One of the greatest dilemmas I faced while writing  The Benderly Boys & American Jewish Education was how to refer ...

What does the synagogue of the future look like? Today synagogue affiliation rates are dropping, as are affiliation rates across ...