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Being Jewish
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.

We all know that Father’s Day is a secular American holiday, invented as a way of honoring fathers as a complement to Mother’s Day. Sometimes

Being Jewish

Telling the Story, and Eating It

by Erica Brown

In medieval Haggadot, it was not unusual to find an illustration of maror—the bitter herb on the Seder plate—in a woman’s form. In the partner,

Being Jewish

Commentary: No Zero in Survival

by Haim Chertok

The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time…and said…I will bestow my blessing upon you and make your descendents as numerous as

Being Jewish

Family Matters: Watershed

by Amy Klein

As the mikve lady picked loose, wet hairs off my back, I shivered, standing naked and barefoot on the cold floor tiles. Satisfied I was spotless, she

Being Jewish

The Arts: Contractual Beauty

by Jenna Weissman Joselit

Affairs of the heart do not run smoothly. Whether your moment of wedded bliss took place in 1953 or is scheduled for this year, getting

Being Jewish

Family Matters: One Purpose, Many Hats

by Deborah Fineblum Schabb

When asked, “Where does God exist?” the Kotzker Rebbe famously replied, “Wherever you let Him in.” For me, that letting in started with a bag

Being Jewish

Commentary: Jews and God

by Norma Rosen

Years ago, I read After Auschwitz: History, Theology, and Contemporary Judaism, Richard Rubenstein’s painful little book published in 1966. It argues that the covenant between God

Being Jewish

Profile: Angela Buchdahl

by Rahel Musleah

Angela Warnick Buchdahl thinks of herself as a wandering Jew with a sense of direction. The Korean-born daughter of an Ashkenazic father and a Buddhist

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