family

“Because I am a Jew,” one person said. I had asked the participants of a class to tell me why ...

The Daf Yomi (Hebrew for “page a day”), is a program for learning Talmud.  Participants study one page a day, ...

Like it or not, intermarriage is a fact in Jewish life.And for the most part the Jewish community has learned ...

Soon after learning my late grandmother’s family lived in Nachlaot, I accepted an invitation for Shabbat dinner from sweet friends, Mottle ...

Clarksdale, Mississippi. To fans of the blues, Clarksdale is the birthplace of the great Sam Cook, “A Change is Gonna ...

One of the strange, but nice, things that come from publishing a book is that people start to take you ...

Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available.I want to talk a little more about my family of ...

Yesterday was a big day for our family. My daughter graduated from college. She was the fourth of our five ...

Sometimes, standing in line for airport security toward the beginning of my book tour, I felt I knew what my ancestors ...