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Joseph Jacobs: Fighting Anti-Semitism, Genetically
In Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People, Harry Ostrer wrote about a series of scientists who contributed to ...
A Song from Sarah’s Point of View
Stereo Sinai presents a song from Sarah's point of view in the Lecha Lecha episode of G-dcast.
Alice Walker Denies The Color Purple’s Power
Alice Walker is one of my favorite authors ever, hands down. The Temple of My Familiar might have been the ...
Being Jewish without Trauma
When my son Noah was about 3 or 4, he came home from school one day and asked me, “Abba, ...
The Future of the Past
In a recent Commentary article, Jack Wertheimer once again takes on the trends in American Jewry – individualism, pluralism, universalism, anti-tribalism, ...
The Joint
Earlier this week, Leslie Maitland wrote about choosing an epigraph, the artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteineproject, and reconnecting branches of her family ...
Borrowed Words
I have always been fascinated by epigraphs — those borrowed words that authors choose to introduce and encapsulate the message ...
Stolpersteine
German artist Gunter Demnig created these two Stolpersteine in memory of Samuel Sigmar and Alice Berta Gunzburger in 2005. He ...
Stumbling Stones
In 1989 I accompanied my parents and brother on my mother’s first visit back to her birthplace of Freiburg im Breisgau ...
Remembering and Keeping Memorial Day
I was thinking today about a Memorial Day breakfast I attended a couple years ago at the home of a ...
Day Schools and the End of the Melting Pot
I met Peter Beinart in 1999 when he was writing an article for The Atlantic on Jewish community day schools. ...