My paternal grandparents lived across from a canal in Long Beach on Long Island. We went to their house every weekend andat least in the confusing pa...
Two moments of communal life have come to my attention recently that speak to the dangers of exclusion in the building of successful community that ar...
When I was researching my last novel, my friend Michael Rohatyn found a book at the Strand he thought I might like: The Jews of Poland: Recollections ...
Doesn't it seem like Memorial Day has arrived a bit early this year!? We are barely past Shavuot and now a wonderful three day weekend looms before us...
A few weeks ago, an acquaintance of mine gleefully forwarded a link to a study that asserted that atheists and agnostics are more motivated by empathy...
When I was twenty, I met a charming elderly man on a train in Greece who told me I looked like an angel. He insisted on escorting me to my destination...