Erika Dreifus

Colorful works underscore the tragedy of a life cut short and a family’s ongoing agony

Poetry for Shavuot, when we read about Ruth, a Moabite woman considered to be the first convert to Judaism

When Alan Rickman died, social media blew up with mini lamentations for the widely beloved actor. But the moment produced great ambivalence within me.

At New York’s Tenement Museum, panelists discussed the still-relevant meaning of Yezierska’s novel about an immigrant Jewish family on the Lower East Side