"Folk song calls the native back to his roots and prepares him emotionally to dance, worship, work, fight, or make love in ways normal to his place." Alan Lomax, Folk Songs of North America
Over sushi in Brooklyn the other night, my kids asked my wife and
We took advantage of our empty nest status to take a week-long trip to Spain this month, the first time in almost 20 years that we could travel at a time when schools weren’t on vacation. In Toledo, we have been staying in a delightful small hotel called La
Earlier this week the last known gay Jewish Holocaust survivor, Gad Beck, passed away. In many ways he defied being a victim -- he snuck into a deportation center to free his boyfriend, for example, and was an active member of the Resistance.
As someone who grew up reading Little Golden Books in which mommies and daddies take care of their obedient children, I like how Maurice Sendak’s stories, by contrast, dive right into the fray of real life—warts and all. As a librarian, I also appreciate what
Jews throughout the world have been commemorating the Holocaust annually on the 27th of Nisan since 1953, when the Israeli government inaugurated this day of remembrance and linked to the heroic Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of a decade earlier.
Holocaust Remembrance Day, which comes upon us soon, is a time to reflect on the darkest tragedy of the Jewish people in the modern age (and some would say in all of history).
“Why don’t they want us? Why is there so much hospitality towards us”; asks Edith, a refugee from the Holocaust living in England.
Deborah Lipstad transports her readers back in time to Jerusalem sixteen years after May 8, 1945 V-E Day and the end of the Shoah, and thirteen years after May 14, 1948 when Israel became an independent state.
by Peter Shapiro
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A reader of Nicole Krauss's novel "Great House" in my judgment will either like it or dislike it but there will be no middle ground.
Together, we will champion the lessons of Passover by bringing greater wholeness, justice, and belonging to our world.