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Writing About The Holocaust

It was a day like any other. I was absorbed in the details of my life, answering an overflowing stack ...

Click here for part 1 of this series. Rabbi Benay Lappe instructed us in the traditional method of Talmud study, ...

One of the most pathetic (in the original sense of evoking pathos) passages in the Talmud is one (Bava Metzia ...

My husband and I recently journeyed from New Orleans to Israel—a first trip for him, an always-sacred return for me. ...

In my many years of schooling across three continents, I’ve attended many Holocaust classes. Yet, during each lesson and every ...

I know that attending the Yeshivat Maharat graduation is the “right thing to do” but it is easy to forget, ...

Readers often ask: How did a girl raised in a secular socialist family in Los Angeles come to be a ...

Reaching out is a risk that comes with a big potential reward.

There is almost always a deeper, inner insecurity that is causing the jealousy.

We are the “selfie generation.” Don’t let the epithet unsettle you. According to leading sociologists, we are not the first ...

This is my first week as the historian for the ISJL. I’ve been so warmly welcomed here—and am already finding connections ...

A few days ago my novel, Fields of Exile , was published in the USA, and this month marks exactly ...