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When you do anything creative – from writing stories to hooking rugs – people are likely to ask you where ...

Row 1: Adelaide Herrmann, magician and wife of Alexander Herrmann | Alexander Herrmann, the great magician and Julius’ cousin | ...

A few days ago I was on my way home from work on my bike when a passenger in a ...

Here’s one way that you can help out a historic synagogue — and help yourself in the process!Congregation Beth Elohim, ...

Gerald Kolpan‘s newest book, Magic Words: The Tale of a Jewish Boy-Interpreter, the World’s Most Estimable Magician, a Murderous Harlot, ...

These days, when people write a book, they invariably have an acknowledgments page, where they thank a few people or–like ...

Well I did not make it to the Newsweek Rabbi list, or even the My Jewish Learning Real Top Rabbi ...

Tomorrow is Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day! To celebrate, we thought we’d share this mini-documentary we filmed one year at ...

Should I show my husband my work? My sister? My mother? Students sometimes ask me this. Go ahead, I say. ...

Before I could read and write in English, I spoke Yiddish. At age 3 I learned the Hebrew alef-bet alongside ...

I recently made my first exploratory college visit with my high school aged son.  My initial reaction during the tour ...

Debra Spark is the author of The Pretty Girl, a collection of stories about art and deception.In literature, as in ...

When I was in rabbinical school in the mid to late 1990s the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical ...

Almost eight years ago, on the evening of April 22nd, after a full day of labor, my husband Rick and ...

Several years ago at a writing conference, I was listening to a panel of agents and editors talk about how ...