With Rosh Hashanah less than a week away, many of us are now officially into preparation mode. For some that may mean taking their best... Read More

Wednesday morning, my day started with a visit from one of my colleagues, Nancy. She mentioned that every year, there seems to be a new... Read More

We all have crazy families. We don’t all have to write 400 page books about them. In Broken Birds: the Story of my Momila, Jeannette... Read More

Tomorrow, August 28, is the first ever International Read Comics in Public Day. Since the American comicbook industry was largely built by Jewish immigrants, the... Read More

A number of years ago, I received an excited phone call from a friend. "You've got to hear this guy I just met," she enthused.... Read More

  Catch a special screening of this new documentary about the largest group of cantors ever to return to Poland since World War II, as... Read More

  For nearly half a century, historians of the Holocaust used 60 minutes of supposedly raw film labeled "The Ghetto" discovered in an East German... Read More

Jews, on the whole, aren't known for our alcohol consumption. Sure, we might drink a l'chayim when there's something to celebrate, but as far as... Read More