When my life-long dream of being a contestant on ‘Jeopardy!’ became a reality, things quickly went south. Then, Alex Trebek picked me right up.
Introducing Sam Horowitz and his troupe of scantily-clad female dancers
Bat mitzvahs tell us less about tradition than they do about how girls create rites for coming of age, as the new book Today I Am a Woman shows
An illustrated remembrance of halcyon days at fat camp
The frenetic, hormonally charged days before a bat mitzvah
Eliot Fintushel’s category-defying Yiddish-inflected science fiction
A son faces the ghosts his father left behind
After months of avoiding the big decisions, we finally began making the small ones
Composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown hasn’t always had an easy time fitting in. Neither have his characters.
When I finally met “my people,” I felt a little out of my depth
Is being Jewish really “the least defining thing” about Dylan Ebdus? Or is it the underlying central thread in The Fortress of Solitude?