As the Hebrews, formerly slaves in Egypt, are making their way to the land of…
Author: Gershon Ben-Avraham
In ordinary times, the Kriyas haTorah [“Reading of the Torah”] occurs publicly in the synagogue…
I spent many delightful hours one summer reading David Copperfield to Mrs. Vera Wardner Dougan…
In the summer of 1815, the poet John Keats and his friend Charles Cowden Clarke…
I wasn’t with my father when he died. No one was. In his music school’s…
Chapter 11 of the Bible book Numbers records a plague experienced by the Hebrews on…
The western boundary of the US State of Mississippi is defined, for the most part,…
One Friday evening, some years ago, I attended services at a synagogue in Lafayette Hill,…
Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was an Irish poet. He was a friend and biographer of the…
My mother was born in Hazard, Kentucky, in the United States on November 14, 1930.…