Two years after my divorce, I’m finally learning how to stop focusing on what other people think of me
A holiday celebrating freedom is a good time to remember those who aren’t free
As a black classical singer, I avoided singing negro spirituals—until Yiddish music helped me hear them in a new way as a Jew
My father used to share his harrowing childhood memories every year at the Seder. Now I make sure his memories will survive.
Judith Shklar’s minority liberalism offers both an escape hatch from the Hobbesian tyranny of democratic majorities and a pathway to becoming the freest and most authentic versions of ourselves
What lessons can we learn from them today?
On Passover, celebrating our family’s arrival in Canada
My father, Natan Sharansky, lived through his own Exodus. The seminal Passover text taught me how to tell his story.
Why was this dinner party different from all other dinner parties? Because it was the first event I hosted after separating from my husband, when I was figuring out what freedom meant.
Jewish slaveowners celebrate Passover in 17th-century Suriname
As Jews around the world recount Passover’s story of liberation, ongoing political repression in China casts a shadow over every Seder table
