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Honoring My Grandfather
I have my paternal grandfather’s six-digit Holocaust number, 184203, tattooed on my wrist. What was done to him in hate, I do in love.
Showing Who I Am
Whenever people ask me about who I am, being Jewish is one of the first things I tell them.
Why I'm Not Tattooed
Miriam Hopper: Jewish tradition teaches us that the body is sacred. There would have to be a good reason for me to alter the body I was given. Missy Goldstein: I think of myself as so much more than any tattoo could say about me. To me, having a tattoo would be too defining.
Teen Talk: My Hero Mack
Ask me who my hero was while I was in kindergarten and I would have said my teacher, Mrs. Green, because she was kind and wore funky sweaters. In fourth grade, it would have been a toss-up between Oprah and Ellen DeGeneres, because they both interviewed all of my favorite celebrities.
What Do You Know About Burial and Shiva?
Learn more about Jewish burial and shiva customs
The Education of a Confirmed Scoffer
How I - a sheltered religious skeptic - found my way to Judaism.
The Secular Jew Who Transformed Judaism
Baruch Spinoza’s ideas profoundly impacted Jewish thought and belief.
Theodor Herzl Tapestry
Dear Jonathan, I inherited my grandfather’s tapestry, which portrays Theodor Herzl on a balcony at the First Zionist Congress. I believe it may be an early 20th century piece produced by the Bezalel School of Art and Design in Jerusalem. What are your thoughts as to its rarity and value?
At Home with the Homeless
God is always asking us to serve. In the Torah portion Tzav (Hebrew for “command”), God offers deliberate and precise instructions, too.