The High Holiday season is the perfect time to remember the importance of community and our individual need to be part of something larger than ourselves.

Readers showed great interest in our profile of Arthur and Pauline Frommer, and we heard from the author of the new Woody Allen biography.

The family once met on the first Saturday of the month, a boisterous gathering of adults and children. Today, the family only meets at funerals.

Among the derivatives of the Hebrew root ‭resh, khaf, lamed are biblical spice, perfume merchants and‭ ‬rumormongers and scandalmongers.

From developing a melanoma vaccine to working on controlling diabetes, Hadassah's multidisciplinary approach is resulting in medical breakthroughs and innovations.

Although I am very much at home in America, Israel is home, too. Many Hadassah members feel the same way.

Yom Kippur is about our relationship to God, although God remains a mystery to us. Purim is a day of masquerades and parties.

When I was a child and recited on the High Holy Days the long, repeating list of alphabetical transgressions, I did not even know what most of them…