Our Israeli tour guide, Dina, a feisty, middle-aged woman, was originally from Egypt. Her family had a thousand year history there, but was forced…

It’s a rainy, dark, cold Monday night, and I am surrounded by an Ethnomusicology graduate student from France, a freshman Dance and Neuroscience double-major,…

I was four years old when I was told that I had been adopted when I was a baby. Not that a four year…

I am currently between names. I have given up my girl name, but I have not found the right boy name for me yet.…

1. I held my breath as my grandfather wound the tefillim’s narrow leather strap around his bicep to hold the small black box in…

I let her play dress up With closet treasures. Sedate boxy handbags carefully stuffed with tissue paper. Italian leather satchels treated with saddle soap…

The Supreme Court in the United States ruled recently, in a 5 to 4 decision, to uphold President Trump’s travel ban. There are fifty…

Anyone who has a child and anyone who ever was a child has thought about heroes of some sort, at some point. Of course,…

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks states in his book, The Great Partnership  that “Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things…

Reading the recent post by the young woman assaulted in Jerusalem was heartbreaking. She wrote bravely, honestly, exposing in excruciating detail the traumatic incident…