A couple of years ago, after several years of trying to get all the way through the counting of the ...

Looking back on the past few months, I wouldn’t call it a “cruel summer.” Nor would I call it “the ...

“When Did I Say That?”Countless times I’ve stepped off the bima, and a congregant has come to me puzzled.“Nice sermon, ...

The reissuing of my novel about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Red Love, as an e-book this month is a joyful moment for me. ...

I am black, and I am Jewish.I’ve always found comfort in the and of my identity — that simple part ...

Last week, I was having a conversation about the future of Judaism at an informal gathering of Jewish professionals, Jews ...

“It’s not that I have an issue with her having sex, per se,  it’s just that it should mean something.  ...

I’m writing this post as I’m about to depart for Europe. First stop, London, and then on to Portugal. In ...

Cutbacks, scandals, and hope.

Faced with state-endorsed anti-semitism, Russian Jews attempted to make their own emancipation.