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How I came to read The Hound of the Baskervilles when I was only 8   My fascination with detectives started very ...

I just got back from a weekend “family camp” retreat. One of the most remarkable aspects of the experience was ...

On this Memorial Day, we recall all those who have given their lives defending our freedom.Throughout American history, Jews have ...

I have clear visions of my daydreams from years ago.  Images of clear blue skies, the shiniest sunny days, a ...

I’m involved with a wonderful collection of people in Jackson who work hard to put on Figment, a participatory arts ...

My paternal grandparents lived across from a canal in Long Beach on Long Island. We went to their house every ...

A series by Jewish moms and dads with LGBTQ children. When a child comes out, a coming out process begins ...

Two moments of communal life have come to my attention recently that speak to the dangers of exclusion in the ...

I hate when my parents ask me on visiting day or after camp “why weren’t you in any of pictures ...

We in the Jewish community just spent forty-nine days counting the Omer, the period from liberation to revelation, from leaving ...

When I was researching my last novel, my friend Michael Rohatyn found a book at the Strand he thought I might ...

A few weeks ago, an acquaintance of mine gleefully forwarded a link to a study that asserted that atheists and ...

When I was twenty, I met a charming elderly man on a train in Greece who told me I looked ...

Today Harvey Milk would have been 83. Instead, this gay Jewish hero, who was cut down in his prime, remains ...

Last week, I had the unique experience of driving to Demopolis, Alabama, (the recent subject of a Forward article about ...