Study

Many Jews have ambivalent feelings about the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Thankfully, the Jewish story in the United States has ...

I began making frequent trips to Israel during the second intifada, in August 2001. I became accustomed to the security ...

This is the first page of a comic book I’m working on. It’s based on the Bintel Brief, a popular Yiddish ...

My daughter sings in the choir at her Jewish high school.  Only her mother can attend the annual concert. I ...

As an American-Israeli it is painful to watch Israel’s dirty laundry be aired out so publicly. I have been content ...

The other day I had a discussion with a group of girls about their ideal bat mitzvah (the celebration that ...

About a decade ago I read a Billy Collins poem called “Advice to Writers,” where this former U.S. Poet Laureate ...

In my grandparents’ homes, as in the shtetlach from whence they came, the food was sweet and sour – just ...

Not too long ago, during a radio interview centered on Inside the Jewish Bakery , the host asked me, “What ...

When I walked down the airplane gangplank for the first time in Ben Gurion airport, I immediately noticed the baggage handlers ...

“What is Hanukah?”  the Talmud asks and typically each year at this time we are reminded by a variety of ...

Last year, just before Chanukah, a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman came to me for some assistance.  Her four-year-old daughter ...