Who are these men perpetually hovering outside the doors of the yeshiva? Who are these children, this gaggle of goslings, and these women, seemingly dutiful and unfazed as they stroll toward their place of prayer? Who are they?
When the pope came to Missouri this week, the St. Louis archdiocese made sure to include several dramatic gestures of Catholic-Jewish friendship in his schedule.
Schwartz, a wealthy Jew, took ill in Boston. The medics rushed him to the best hospital, Mass General, where he received VIP treatment.
Every summer, my sisters and I, along with our husbands and children, spend a few days with our parents at Red\’s Meadow resort near Mammoth.
Recently, an analysis appeared in the press about the Jewish elements in American popular music.
When I was 16, my family picked up and moved from Santa Monica, where I had been born and raised, to Sacramento.
The word \”m\’od,\” which means \”very\” or \”much,\” is a very common biblical word.
Nicholas was 7 months old when we adopted him in Siberia. Though he was born near Birobijan, the Jewish colony set up by Stalin, it only took one diaper change to see that he wasn\’t a member of the tribe. \”We must to do something about this,\” I announced to my husband, Duke, who was still in shock over becoming a father and crossing 20 time zones.
There\’s a wonderful implicit message in the fact that we always begin the annual Torah reading cycle just after Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. \”It is time to begin again,\” the reading cycle tells us. \”And the way to start is by putting the elements of our lives into their proper order.\”
