New York—Among the hundreds of people who came to Gracie Mansion to celebrate Jewish Heritage Month were leading lights of Yiddish theatre in America. Seated

Be LIKABLE, SMART and DETAIL ORIENTED … and do it all with dispatch. The rest is commentary. Bear in mind, however, that commentary has multiple

As Jews, we have an innate love of Israel. We relish the opportunity to visit the Holy Land and we regularly monitor the happenings in

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There is an amazing bistro/restaurant/bakery in Montreal called Exception. The dairy food selection is great, but most outstanding are the desserts. Yum—trust me that there

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Niusia Gordon’s false papers; her parents’ marriage registration; photos kept in hiding; postwar photos; three postcards sent to Niusia by her mother, Basia, from the

One feels sympathy for U.S. President Barack Obama. Whatever he does in Syria, he is doomed. Had he intervened a year ago, as many pundits

Recently, I came across a startling paragraph in Yeshayahu Jelinek’s The Carpathian Diaspora: The Jews of Subcarpathian Rus’ and Mukachevo, a book chiefly dealing with

Jerusalem, Israel — “This is the [miraculous] day which God made, we will rejoice and be glad on it” (Psalms 118:24). On Wednesday, May 8,

Yom Yerushalayim, the day of the capturing of the old city in the 1967 Six-Day War, is many times overshadowed by Yom Ha’atzmaut. We celebrate