(JTA) — Most people spend their later years looking back. Harold Grinspoon has spent his reinventing himself. The businessman ...
The Association of Jewish Libraries announces its Sydney Taylor Book Awards for 2026. Anna is a misunderstood sixth-grade girl who communicates with the ghosts of her Jewish ancestors. Teased by her ...
I have been reading Jewish children’s picture books to kids for a decade-and-a-half, and I always know the book paints a real picture of Jewish peoplehood if it prompts children to ask three questions ...
When Jonathon Nisenboum grew up attending the Joseph and Florence Mandel Jewish Day School, his identity and connection to ...
Yesterday morning, my nine-year-old daughter asked me if I knew they have terror drills at her (Jewish) school. She explained, calmly, the way children describe how ...
If you were an immigrant kid in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, the candy store was the center of your world. You went there to kibbitz and schmooze, to get away from the crush of ...
“Wartime Poland was the closest thing to Hell on this earth,” Father Jan Januszewski, a Dachau survivor, told me shortly before he passed away in Key Largo, Florida, in 1987. When the Germans defeated ...