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This week has been a heavy one for the Jewish people and an indescribably difficult one for the parents of ...

In the past six months, I have attended three “black hat” weddings for my two grandnieces and one grandnephew. My ...

In my last blog post, I wrote about the genesis of my book,  Among Righteous Men , and the emotional connection ...

The State of the Jewish Union is… Meh, we’ll see.Education is the beating heart of Judaism. Where the secular world ...

Matthew Shaer is the author of Among Righteous Men: A Tale of Vigilantes and Vindication in Hasidic Crown Heights. He ...

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

I keep a collection in my head of the names of stories, movies, pictures that seem perfect to me. They ...

Generally, our minds have no problem with coming up with lots of ideas — it’s fairly easy for us to ...

Last Shabbat, the guest speaker at my congregation, B’nai Israel in Bridgeport, CT, was Rabbi Andrea Myers, author of a ...

Liana Finck is adapting old Yiddish press self-help columns into a book. This week, she’s letting us peek behind the ...

For someone whose life is writing on the Internet, Patrick Aleph still has a lot of secrets.Aside from running the ...

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 ...

One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as ...

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