Marilyn Shapiro: Purim pause during the pandemic— a time to mask?
By MARILYN SHAPIRO “We’re having a celebration for Purim,” the president of my congregation announced excitedly at the end of a
By MARILYN SHAPIRO “We’re having a celebration for Purim,” the president of my congregation announced excitedly at the end of a
By MARILYN SHAPIRO Can a book change a life? Our 10th grade English class was deep into The Scarlet Letter, a classic
By Rabbi DAN ORNSTEIN The biblical Book of Numbers, chapter 4, repeatedly describes the ancient Levites’ sacred service in the mishkan
By MARILYN SHAPIRO “Wintering brings about some of the most profound and insightful moments of our human experience,” “and wisdom resides
By SHIRA FEDER NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – When Lloyd Wolf heard the long blast from a shofar at the Jan.
By JONATHAN COHEN My dad, Eliyahu Addy Cohen, was born in February of 1928 in Tel Aviv. It was a small
By LAUREN SILVERMAN This story originally was published on Alma. After a big break-up, some people reach for the bottle. Others reach
By MARILYN SHAPIRO Before 23andme.com DNA kits, before genetic testing, before people poured through old census and courthouse records, my family
By ALEX KIRSHNER NEW YORK CITY (JTA) – The Christians of my childhood tried hard to make me feel welcome around
By MARILYN SHAPIRO So much has been written about the Holocaust. Novels. Memoirs. Plays. Each echoes the theme of “Never Again!”