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In her introduction to her story “Kafka in Bronteland” which concludes our anthology Kafkaesque , Tamar Yellin writes:“For years I ...

Last Monday evening a light rain fell on the Capitol City where I live on 16th Street, a mile up ...

Since my first encounter with Kafka‘s writing, I’ve been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in ...

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

Franz Kafka was a man who struggled with his many contradictions. Although his writing has come to be intensively studied, as ...

We shall overcome, we shall overcome, We shall overcome someday; Oh, Deep in my heart, I do believe, We shall ...

After hours of excruciating labor, the sweetest sound that can be heard is that of a crying baby.  That first ...

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

I didn’t have a bat mitzvah, the ceremony that marks the coming of age of Jewish girls. When I reached ...

On January 9, 2011, a sweet singer of Israel, Debbie Friedman, passed away.  While her Hebrew yahrzeit is at the ...

In the few months since our book was published, women of different ages have come up to us with stories ...

Potato chips can be absolutely addicting. The marketing of processed foods in America has brilliantly caught us in our weakness ...

Every Thursday afternoon at my yeshiva college in Queens my Gemara rebbe (teacher of Talmud) would offer a short thought ...

There is an oft quoted description of Torah being a combination of black fire and white fire and, perhaps surprisingly, ...

Reputedly, Rachmaninoff once said: “There’s no such thing as inspiration. You sit down and do the work.” There’s so much ...