Sometimes our grandchildren surprise us and show off their Judaism
Donna Harris
Trying to figure out what would bring my children and my grandchildren to a synagogue is challenging. After years of belonging to a...
Playing table tennis in 15 languages with Stuart Goldberg
As a trained linguist, Stuart Goldberg dabbles in 15 languages, Hebrew and Russian among them. As a table tennis enthusiast, he’s bested players in...
Saul Golubcow introduces his Holocaust survivor-turned-private eye
As a student at Rutgers, Saul Golubcow wrote for a literary magazine. An English professor saw something in the young man’s work and urged...
In NoVa, different paths to becoming bar or bat mitzvah
Lisa Downing was raised as a Roman Catholic. But as an adult, she said, she could not find her footing in Christianity. So she...
The time is now to document family history
By Bob Roth
The gold charm, fashioned in the likeness of a book, had my mother’s initials engraved on it and the date: 10/21/57. Polishing...
The new Florida? Record number of U.S. retirees relocated to Israel in 2021
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By Larry Luxner
TEL AVIV — A few weeks ago, Joel Tenenbaum, 81, and Marilyn Berkowitz, 84, arrived in Tel Aviv on an El Al...
He wanted to be an actor, and ended up as George Washington
By Jarrad Saffren
George Washington’s legacy is quite literally the United States of America. So when Daniel Shippey became the nation’s foremost Washington impersonator at...