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Fiction: A Few Small Stones
Some families take pride in a home or a farm, but this multigenerational family struggled to maintain a patch of burial ground.

Some families take pride in a home or a farm, but this multigenerational family struggled to maintain a patch of burial ground.
Space, Time, Gravity and Zionism
Less well known than his Theory of Relativity is Einstein’s contribution to the 20th-century chronicle of the Jewish people and Zionism.

Less well known than his Theory of Relativity is Einstein’s contribution to the 20th-century chronicle of the Jewish people and Zionism.

How should Jews be thinking about the Syrian refugee crisis? Let us start with this: Today’s Jews are the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of refugees.

Being Jewish

Go the Distance You Can

by Carol Ascher

The process of forgiveness involves both the one who was angered and the one who gave offense. What happens, then, when only one side is left to both

Being Jewish

Wilderness of Mirrors

by David Klinghoffer

As we experience a fresh rash of anti-Semitism, spattered across the globe, we naturally ask: Why does God permit it?

Being Jewish

A Mentch in Rome

by Jay Michaelson

If you took a poll today asking American Jews to name their favorite religious leader, the answer might well be Pope Francis.

Being Jewish

The Enemy

by David W. Weiss

A guesthouse in an Albanian village offered the tourists a comfortable place to rest. But it also sparked a meditation on a very personal and intense Jewish relationship