Personal Stories

Marilyn Shapiro reflects on High Holy Day gatherings past and present, and on placing a stone at yizkor in memory of loved ones.

Jack Kaplowitz reflects on a Rhine River cruise through Ashkenazi Jewish history and asks why Jews alone have never committed genocide.

Beneath Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Center, on parking level four, a small city took root through three weeks of war: yoga, singles events, garden chairs.

Last time the writer went to Carnegie Hall for a Jewish event, security turned her away and protesters spat outside. What brought her back.

Anat Mastor fled Iran as a teenager. Today she leads the perfusion team for an Israeli network that has done heart surgery on 8,000 children.

Israel’s UN mission marked International Women’s Day by spotlighting four Iranian women who oppose the Tehran regime, turning the focus toward Iran.