On Shavuot, we are reminded that the Torah is a tree of life to which we are to hold fast. But what happens when that hold slips from your grasp?
The president marked Jewish American Heritage Month with a speech Friday at Washington’s oldest Jewish congregation, Adas Israel.
Pop star Lady Gaga accepted an award from the Anti-Defamation League on behalf of her Born This Way Foundation.
All of Patrick Modiano\’s works revisit again and again the abandonments he endured as a child; wounds that have left him reclusive and uncomfortable with others. Although married for decades to a Jewish woman of Tunisian origin, and the father of two grown daughters, he comes across in interviews, and on the written page, including “Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas” (translated by Mark Polizzotti and published by Yale University Press), as a broken man whose face still shows the ravages of emotional neglect.
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