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The most successful Jewish American writer may be the most ambivalent as well.

At mid 20th century, Jewish writers connected with American readers by writing about alienation.

The founder and editor of the Forward wrote one of the most important American immigrant novels ever.

In America, a female sweatshop worker from a Polish shtetl could become a renowned writer and Hollywood commodity.

Using a medium often associated with lightheartedness to portray the horrors of the Holocaust.

Ozick's version of Jewish literature is more than Yiddish words and slapstick.

Jewish views on organ donation are overridden by a single halakhic (legal) concept: pikuach nefesh—the Jewish obligation to save lives.

Exodus 1:1-6:1

Moses leads the Israelites into the wilderness after their escape from Egypt. God sends manna to feed them and Amalek attacks the Israelites.

Exodus 13:17-17:16

Only through the combination of ritual and ethics can Judaism fully express itself.

God instructs Moses regarding the procedures for the Day of Atonement; sexual prohibitions are then listed.