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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. ...
Countering Destruction: Lessons from Noah
Today, perhaps the greatest risk of humans destroying the world comes not from those with the intent but from the collective, unintentional actions of billions.
The Magic of Summer Camp
When my ten year old daughter heads to sleep-away camp this summer she will follow a family tradition that began the ...
Reciprocal Receiving on Rosh Chodesh
The Western Wall beckoned at the beginning of the new Hebrew month of Kislev, 5760.I was studying at the Conservative ...
JP Morgan, a Prostitute, and the Talmud
…And to be clear, in the following analogy, Chase is the prostitute.At a time when two-income families struggle to make ...
What’s in a Name?
One of the greatest dilemmas I faced while writing The Benderly Boys & American Jewish Education was how to refer ...