A Holy Man Of Laughter: My Encounter With The Dalai Lama

Faith, science and humility in Dharamsala.

Breaking The Glass, Letting Go

Parenting And Cognitive Disabilities: Looking To My Son’s Future

Parents of children with disabilities need to prepare now for their children’s futures—and our community should be part of that process.

Anthony Bourdain Used Food To Bridge Divides — Even Between Arabs And Jews

First Person: Finding Hope In Haifa

My Relationship With The Kotel: It’s Complicated

Ancient stones, modern politics and the very personal Israel-diaspora relationship.

Ari Ben Portnoy

The Philip Roth-Leon Uris battle still resonates, decades later. Who are we? The fighter or the kvetcher? The noble or the nebbish? The ideal or the real?

First Person: Writing In Roth’s Room At Yaddo

The lessons of a writer’s liberation.

Philip Roth Showed Me How To Be An American Jew

Laughing At Myself In Hebrew

Out Of Hiding

How Daf Yomi Became Part Of This Working Mom’s Routine

First Person: How I Became My Jewish Mother

First Person: On Being Jewish And Latina

“Even after eighteen years in the United States my accent seems to define who I am to other people.”

Israel At 70: How Israelis Like Me Relate To A Country That’s An Ocean Away