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The Reprieve
Were you aware that every year, erev Thanksgiving, a turkey is sent to the White House for the president to ...
Double Vision
Perhaps after I was born, someone sneaked into the hospital nursery and instead of snatching me, stood above me and ...
Two Worlds
By Education Fellow Reva FrankelI grew up in a Modern Orthodox community, so when I came to work at the ...
The Shame of Israel
It was after sustaining over 1,000 rockets fired into Southern Israel from the Gaza Strip since the beginning of 2012, ...
Sports Is Like Hollywood: They’re Both Jewish!
In Operation Shylock , Philip Roth wrote a passage that, had he not written it, we would have needed to ...
From the Collection: High Water
As stated in one of our last posts about the hurricane, we are familiar with what the devastation of hurricanes ...
Online classes with MyJewishLearning
This Holiday season MyJewishLearning is offering two live, interactive, online classes designed to help you prepare for Thanksgiving.Global Day of ...
Writing Biography: The Historian’s Challenge, Part 2
Can biographers really know their subjects fully? Was Mark Twain right when he said that “a man’s real life is ...
Why I Care About Trans Day of Remembrance as a (“Cisgender”) Gay Man
I’m a white gay Jewish man. Up until a few years ago, I didn’t even know what “cisgender” meant.Three weeks ...
Writing Biography: The Historian’s Challenge, Part 1
For historians, writing biography presents a number of challenges. One of the more important comes from scholars who tend to ...
It’s Not Over Until …
It’s not over until…When the Simpsons go to see Carmen at the Springfield Opera House Homer asked Bart when the ...
How did they get here?
When I tell people about Jewish families in the small towns I’ve visited, they often ask, “How did they get ...