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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.

A Seventh From Heaven

by Micha Odenheimer

Rosh Hashana marked the beginning of 5775, a shemitta, or sabbatical, year in the Land of Israel. According to the Torah, “And six years you

Democracy, Judaism and War

American democracy originated in the Torah’s egalitarian nature and just aspirations.

Divining Moments

As the famous author and scholar lay in his hospital bed recuperating from surgery, questions of God and His place in the bad as well as the good

Being Jewish
Family

Field, and Chant, of Dreams

by Joshua Henkin

In the fall of 1972, when I was starting the third grade, I moved to London with my parents and my brothers for my father’s

Being Jewish
Family

“Control” Alternating with “Delete”

by Renee Ghert-Zand

Lisa Samick was 35 when she watched her younger sister, a new mother, die of metastatic breast cancer. Judah Schiller was 35 when he was

Continuity and Rebellion

by Jeffrey K. Salkin

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

Telling the Story, and Eating It

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,

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