I always have a valid passport. I keep it within easy access and I know just where it is, and ...

When I was growing up the common wisdom was, if possible, to avoid conversations of religion and politics around the dinner ...

Visual symbols of the Jewish New Year include the shofar and apples and honey. 

Because the camera always eats first.

Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available. For a long time I wanted to be a fiction ...

Dead donkeys and Twitter.

What is the essence of Passover? On the one hand, it seems obvious: Passover is about gathering together with loved ...

Celebrating for eight days

Hoshana Rabbah is kind of a weird day – even for the Jewish calendar. It’s not really a holiday – ...

“I sound like a cheap, mean kyke,” my father raged. “I sound like an idiot, a complete non-entity,” my mother ...