Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. What makes books on family history so compelling for me is that…
At the start of the film “Leona,” an indie drama set in Mexico City, protagonist Ariela watches her close friend immerse in a mikvah, or ritual bath, with…
The opening moments of “Possessions,” the new French-Israeli drama now on HBO Max, present a family in crisis over their daughter’s impending marriage.…
In this column, I usually write about my kids and my experiences as a parent, but this month I decided to interview my own father, David Himmelstein. He’s…
A young man has to stay up one night guarding the corpse of a stranger, having agreed to wait for the mortician. It is a dark and dreary house, and an old…
Here’s a football bet you probably could’ve gotten long odds on before the season started: each Super Bowl team having a Jewish offensive lineman. Both…