I constantly cut Hebrew School classes to play electric guitars and eat Dunkin’ Donuts. Years later, I learned a valuable lesson.

As a kid in 1970s Los Angeles, I thought my mother’s behavior was typical. Now I wonder: Could I have helped her sooner?

Inspired by the educational process in Israel, Liore Alroy, a businessman from New Jersey, has created a immersive playgroup for toddlers to help them learn Hebrew

A writer learns to cope with those times when her birthday overlaps with Passover—thanks to her mother’s cookies

The esteemed author talks about all the reasons the founder of psychoanalysis would have objected to a new examination of his life

Growing up with divorced parents—one Jewish, one not—seemed to offer an abundance of holiday riches. Instead, it caused grade-school trouble.

After a year of unpleasant planning (or lack thereof), I found unplanned pleasure at my son’s bar mitzvah

Finding things in common with a boy from old L

Guidebooks quell the anxieties of raising up a child

In our apartment, I learned French and read Shakespeare. Outside of it, things got a bit more complicated.

A son faces the ghosts his father left behind

When I finally met “my people,” I felt a little out of my depth

The Quay Brothers and Bruno Schulz animate the ordinary

How a childhood in Tel Aviv differs from one in Houston

One author thought moving to New York meant severing her small town roots. Then she started writing fiction.