History
The High Holiday Research Method
With Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur just behind us, I thought I would share a little bit about the significance ...
Texas and Illegal Jewish Immigrants
While illegal immigration has become a hot button issue in recent years, it is not a new phenomenon. In fact, ...
Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage: “a journey to a place associated with someone or something well known or respected” (The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of ...
When One Ark Closes, Another One Opens
There are 650 miles and 3 states between Fort Mill, South Carolina and Greenwood, Mississippi, but their connection is closer ...
My Summer in the South: An Intern’s Perspective
At the little public library in Hartshorne, Oklahoma, I see a man wearing a camouflage-patterned Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. baseball ...
The ISJL Conquers Texas
At first, it seemed crazy: writing the histories of 55 different Texas Jewish communities for our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. The ...
The Dangers of Nice
When I set out to write the story of the Aleppo Codex, I imagined that I would be writing an uplifting ...
The Maid of Ludomir
A Queer Ancestor in the Butch-Trans Border WarAs the month of Tammuz draws to a close, we have the opportunity ...
My Pekar Years
I met Harvey Pekar in 2005. On a whim, I gave him a copy of my book, and he really liked ...
Albert Einstein: A Highly Committed Jew
Albert Einstein may have been the most famous Jew of the 20th century. His biographer Walter Isaacson described that “when he ...